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[PATCH 6/8] Replace memset() with memzero_explicit()

From: Sandy Harris <hidden>
Date: 2021-11-16 11:38:53
Also in: lkml
Subsystem: crypto api, the rest · Maintainers: Herbert Xu, "David S. Miller", Linus Torvalds

Replace memset(address,0,bytes) which may be optimised
away with memzero_explicit(address,bytes) which resists
such optimisation

---
 crypto/sha3_generic.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/crypto/sha3_generic.c b/crypto/sha3_generic.c
index 3e4069935b53..cfc10dd62e02 100644
--- a/crypto/sha3_generic.c
+++ b/crypto/sha3_generic.c
@@ -232,7 +232,7 @@ int crypto_sha3_final(struct shash_desc *desc, u8 *out)
     if (digest_size & 4)
         put_unaligned_le32(sctx->st[i], (__le32 *)digest);

-    memset(sctx, 0, sizeof(*sctx));
+    memzero_explicit(sctx, sizeof(*sctx));
     return 0;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(crypto_sha3_final);
-- 
2.25.1
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