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>
Formatting is correct and descriptions are all present, but some
of the argument names are not properly represented in the
documentation.
Fixes the following W=1 build warnings:
drivers/misc/ibmvmc.c:780: warning: Function parameter or member 'msg_len' not described in 'ibmvmc_send_msg'
drivers/misc/ibmvmc.c:780: warning: Excess function parameter 'msg_length' description in 'ibmvmc_send_msg'
drivers/misc/ibmvmc.c:1041: warning: Function parameter or member 'buffer' not described in 'ibmvmc_write'
drivers/misc/ibmvmc.c:1041: warning: Excess function parameter 'buf' description in 'ibmvmc_write'
drivers/misc/ibmvmc.c:1360: warning: Function parameter or member 'file' not described in 'ibmvmc_ioctl'
drivers/misc/ibmvmc.c:1360: warning: Excess function parameter 'session' description in 'ibmvmc_ioctl'
Cc: Steven Royer <seroyer@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Adam Reznechek <adreznec@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: "Bryant G. Ly" <bryantly@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Dave Engebretsen <engebret@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200701083118.45744-30-lee.jones@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
There is a potential NULL pointer dereference in case kzalloc()
fails and returns NULL.
Fix this by adding a NULL check on *session*
Also, update the function header with information about the
expected return on failure and remove unnecessary variable rc.
This issue was detected with the help of Coccinelle.
Fixes: 0eca353e7a ("misc: IBM Virtual Management Channel Driver (VMC)")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Currently the assignment is flipped and rc is always 0.
Signed-off-by: Bryant G. Ly <bryantly@linux.ibm.com>
Fixes: 0eca353e7a ("misc: IBM Virtual Management Channel Driver (VMC)")
Reviewed-by: Bradley Warrum <bwarrum@us.ibm.com>
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
The function alloc_dma_buffer() is called from ibmvmc_add_buffer(),
in which a spin lock be held here, so we should use GFP_ATOMIC when
a lock is held.
Fixes: 0eca353e7a ("misc: IBM Virtual Management Channel Driver (VMC)")
Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <weiyongjun1@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Bryant G. Ly <bryantly@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
This driver is a logical device which provides an
interface between the hypervisor and a management
partition. This interface is like a message
passing interface. This management partition
is intended to provide an alternative to HMC-based
system management.
VMC enables the Management LPAR to provide basic
logical partition functions:
- Logical Partition Configuration
- Boot, start, and stop actions for individual
partitions
- Display of partition status
- Management of virtual Ethernet
- Management of virtual Storage
- Basic system management
This driver is to be used for the POWER Virtual
Management Channel Virtual Adapter on the PowerPC
platform. It provides a character device which
allows for both request/response and async message
support through the /dev/ibmvmc node.
Signed-off-by: Bryant G. Ly <bryantly@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Steven Royer <seroyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Adam Reznechek <adreznec@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Taylor Jakobson <tjakobs@us.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Brad Warrum <bwarrum@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Waiman Long