On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 10:33:02PM +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 01:40:57PM -0500, Nickolaus Woodruff wrote:
> > Compiler dead store optimization can sometimes remove final calls
> > to memset() used to clear sensitive data at the end of a function.
> > Replace trailing memset() calls with memzero_explicit() to
> > preclude unwanted removal.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Nickolaus Woodruff <nickolauswoodr...@gmail.com>
> 
> Patch applied.  Thanks!

Actually I'm reverting this because the patch was bogus.  None
of the data zeroed are on the stack.
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