[PATCH v4 2/3] mm, treewide: Rename kzfree() to kfree_sensitive()

Waiman Long longman at redhat.com
Tue Jun 16 15:05:59 UTC 2020


On 6/16/20 10:26 AM, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> Last time you sent this we couldn't decide which tree it should go
> through.  Either the crypto tree or through Andrew seems like the right
> thing to me.
>
> Also the other issue is that it risks breaking things if people add
> new kzfree() instances while we are doing the transition.  Could you
> just add a "#define kzfree kfree_sensitive" so that things continue to
> compile and we can remove it in the next kernel release?
>
> regards,
> dan carpenter
>
Yes, that make sure sense. Will send out v5 later today.

Cheers,
Longman



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