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authorTakashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>2019-11-25 14:27:33 +0100
committerTakashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>2019-11-25 14:27:41 +0100
commit09578eacaaa44149738267083ccc050990409f86 (patch)
treecf614ee065fe5479e4638abebe12c9e1578b09d9 /include/linux/string.h
parentc6b6fc206586cc07a18595d2a3d815a806a057d0 (diff)
parent8c4d2a0bfbd27d030e4652b714cd5a1598f3559b (diff)
Merge tag 'asoc-v5.5-2' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/sound into for-linus
ASoC: More updates for v5.5 Some more development work for v5.5. Highlights include: - More cleanups from Morimoto-san. - Trigger word detection for RT5677. Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/string.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/string.h21
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/string.h b/include/linux/string.h
index b2f9df7f0761..b6ccdc2c7f02 100644
--- a/include/linux/string.h
+++ b/include/linux/string.h
@@ -227,7 +227,26 @@ static inline bool strstarts(const char *str, const char *prefix)
}
size_t memweight(const void *ptr, size_t bytes);
-void memzero_explicit(void *s, size_t count);
+
+/**
+ * memzero_explicit - Fill a region of memory (e.g. sensitive
+ * keying data) with 0s.
+ * @s: Pointer to the start of the area.
+ * @count: The size of the area.
+ *
+ * Note: usually using memset() is just fine (!), but in cases
+ * where clearing out _local_ data at the end of a scope is
+ * necessary, memzero_explicit() should be used instead in
+ * order to prevent the compiler from optimising away zeroing.
+ *
+ * memzero_explicit() doesn't need an arch-specific version as
+ * it just invokes the one of memset() implicitly.
+ */
+static inline void memzero_explicit(void *s, size_t count)
+{
+ memset(s, 0, count);
+ barrier_data(s);
+}
/**
* kbasename - return the last part of a pathname.