linux/security
Waiman Long 453431a549 mm, treewide: rename kzfree() to kfree_sensitive()
As said by Linus:

  A symmetric naming is only helpful if it implies symmetries in use.
  Otherwise it's actively misleading.

  In "kzalloc()", the z is meaningful and an important part of what the
  caller wants.

  In "kzfree()", the z is actively detrimental, because maybe in the
  future we really _might_ want to use that "memfill(0xdeadbeef)" or
  something. The "zero" part of the interface isn't even _relevant_.

The main reason that kzfree() exists is to clear sensitive information
that should not be leaked to other future users of the same memory
objects.

Rename kzfree() to kfree_sensitive() to follow the example of the recently
added kvfree_sensitive() and make the intention of the API more explicit.
In addition, memzero_explicit() is used to clear the memory to make sure
that it won't get optimized away by the compiler.

The renaming is done by using the command sequence:

  git grep -w --name-only kzfree |\
  xargs sed -i 's/kzfree/kfree_sensitive/'

followed by some editing of the kfree_sensitive() kerneldoc and adding
a kzfree backward compatibility macro in slab.h.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fs/crypto/inline_crypt.c needs linux/slab.h]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix fs/crypto/inline_crypt.c some more]

Suggested-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Cc: "Jason A . Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200616154311.12314-3-longman@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2020-08-07 11:33:22 -07:00
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apparmor mm, treewide: rename kzfree() to kfree_sensitive() 2020-08-07 11:33:22 -07:00
bpf bpf: lsm: Initialize the BPF LSM hooks 2020-03-30 01:34:00 +02:00
integrity integrity-v5.9 2020-08-06 11:35:57 -07:00
keys mm, treewide: rename kzfree() to kfree_sensitive() 2020-08-07 11:33:22 -07:00
loadpin block: move block-related definitions out of fs.h 2020-06-24 09:16:02 -06:00
lockdown Merge branch 'next-general' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security 2020-06-02 17:36:24 -07:00
safesetid security/safesetid: Replace rcu_swap_protected() with rcu_replace_pointer() 2019-10-30 08:45:57 -07:00
selinux cap-checkpoint-restore-v5.9 2020-08-04 15:02:07 -07:00
smack Smack: prevent underflow in smk_set_cipso() 2020-07-27 13:35:12 -07:00
tomoyo exec: Implement kernel_execve 2020-07-21 08:24:52 -05:00
yama sysctl: pass kernel pointers to ->proc_handler 2020-04-27 02:07:40 -04:00
commoncap.c exec: Compute file based creds only once 2020-05-29 22:00:54 -05:00
device_cgroup.c device_cgroup: Cleanup cgroup eBPF device filter code 2020-04-13 14:41:54 -04:00
inode.c Merge branch 'work.mount0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2019-07-19 10:42:02 -07:00
Kconfig bpf: lsm: Initialize the BPF LSM hooks 2020-03-30 01:34:00 +02:00
Kconfig.hardening security: allow using Clang's zero initialization for stack variables 2020-06-16 02:06:23 -07:00
lsm_audit.c audit: purge audit_log_string from the intra-kernel audit API 2020-07-21 11:12:31 -04:00
Makefile device_cgroup: Cleanup cgroup eBPF device filter code 2020-04-13 14:41:54 -04:00
min_addr.c sysctl: pass kernel pointers to ->proc_handler 2020-04-27 02:07:40 -04:00
security.c security: Fix hook iteration and default value for inode_copy_up_xattr 2020-06-23 16:39:23 -07:00