Re: [PATCH 1/3] ixgbe: Use kzfree() rather than its implementation.

From: Jakub Kicinski
Date: Mon Sep 16 2019 - 22:43:27 EST


On Wed, 4 Sep 2019 10:39:10 +0800, zhong jiang wrote:
> Use kzfree() instead of memset() + kfree().
>
> Signed-off-by: zhong jiang <zhongjiang@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_ipsec.c | 9 +++------
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_ipsec.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_ipsec.c
> index 31629fc..113f608 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_ipsec.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_ipsec.c
> @@ -960,11 +960,9 @@ int ixgbe_ipsec_vf_add_sa(struct ixgbe_adapter *adapter, u32 *msgbuf, u32 vf)
> return 0;
>
> err_aead:
> - memset(xs->aead, 0, sizeof(*xs->aead));
> - kfree(xs->aead);
> + kzfree(xs->aead);
> err_xs:
> - memset(xs, 0, sizeof(*xs));
> - kfree(xs);
> + kzfree(xs);
> err_out:
> msgbuf[1] = err;
> return err;
> @@ -1049,8 +1047,7 @@ int ixgbe_ipsec_vf_del_sa(struct ixgbe_adapter *adapter, u32 *msgbuf, u32 vf)
> ixgbe_ipsec_del_sa(xs);
>
> /* remove the xs that was made-up in the add request */
> - memset(xs, 0, sizeof(*xs));
> - kfree(xs);
> + kzfree(xs);
>
> return 0;
> }

All the crypto cases should really be converted to memzero_explicit().