[PATCH v2 2/2] crypto: Remove unnecessary memzero_explicit()

Joe Perches joe at perches.com
Tue Apr 14 19:44:49 UTC 2020


On Tue, 2020-04-14 at 15:37 -0400, Waiman Long wrote:
> OK, I can change it to clear the key length when the allocation failed
> which isn't likely.


Perhaps:

	kfree_sensitive(op->key);
	op->key = NULL;
	op->keylen = 0;

but I don't know that it impacts any possible state.




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