Thread (64 messages) 64 messages, 10 authors, 2024-08-30

Re: [PATCH v2 05/17] vdso: Avoid call to memset() by getrandom

From: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Date: 2024-08-26 08:01:31
Also in: linux-arch, linux-fsdevel, linux-kselftest, linux-mm, linuxppc-dev, lkml

On Thu, Aug 22, 2024 at 09:13:13AM +0200, Christophe Leroy wrote:
With the current implementation, __cvdso_getrandom_data() calls
memset(), which is unexpected in the VDSO.

Rewrite opaque data initialisation to avoid memset().
I think of the various ways I've seen of fixing this -- e.g. adding a
memset() arch-by-arch -- this is the cleanest and simplest. I'll add
this as a fix to random.git now.

Jason
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