Bill O'Donnell 3219e8cf0d xfs: assure zeroed memory buffers for certain kmem allocations ...

Guarantee zeroed memory buffers for cases where potential memory
leak to disk can occur. In these cases, kmem_alloc is used and
doesn't zero the buffer, opening the possibility of information
leakage to disk.

Use existing infrastucture (xfs_buf_allocate_memory) to obtain
the already zeroed buffer from kernel memory.

This solution avoids the performance issue that would occur if a
wholesale change to replace kmem_alloc with kmem_zalloc was done.

Signed-off-by: Bill O'Donnell <billodo@redhat.com>
[darrick: fix bitwise complaint about kmflag_mask]
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>

2019-10-06 15:39:06 -07:00

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