slab: introduce kzfree()
authorJohannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Fri, 20 Feb 2009 23:38:41 +0000 (15:38 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Sat, 21 Feb 2009 01:57:48 +0000 (17:57 -0800)
commit3ef0e5ba467366125f04b423f4638baca54a4fc1
treecfe7b95c7b19b1d5b2a8534fa9791d6026e49dcd
parentd9190913b71831f5e3d04de62cfb1fd069a9db35
slab: introduce kzfree()

kzfree() is a wrapper for kfree() that additionally zeroes the underlying
memory before releasing it to the slab allocator.

Currently there is code which memset()s the memory region of an object
before releasing it back to the slab allocator to make sure
security-sensitive data are really zeroed out after use.

These callsites can then just use kzfree() which saves some code, makes
users greppable and allows for a stupid destructor that isn't necessarily
aware of the actual object size.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
include/linux/slab.h
mm/util.c