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Re: [PATCH] net/lib80211: scrubbing the buffer for key

From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Date: 2019-10-18 08:43:27
Also in: linux-wireless, lkml

On Thu, 2019-10-17 at 23:53 -0500, Kangjie Lu wrote:
The "key" is not scrubbed. As what peer modules do, the fixes zeros
out the key buffer.
Why do you think this is useful/necessary? Please always describe that
in the commit log.

FWIW, I'm convinced that it's not at necessary at all, looking at how
this is allocated ...

johannes
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