From: Giel van Schijndel Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2015 21:37:00 +0000 (+0100) Subject: cifs: use memzero_explicit to clear stack buffer X-Git-Tag: fixes-v4.0-rc1~206^2~2 X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=f99dbfa4b39f90c3ba95169000cc2cdd59413f4e;p=pandora-kernel.git cifs: use memzero_explicit to clear stack buffer When leaving a function use memzero_explicit instead of memset(0) to clear stack allocated buffers. memset(0) may be optimized away. This particular buffer is highly likely to contain sensitive data which we shouldn't leak (it's named 'passwd' after all). Signed-off-by: Giel van Schijndel Acked-by: Herbert Xu Reported-at: http://www.viva64.com/en/b/0299/ Reported-by: Andrey Karpov Reported-by: Svyatoslav Razmyslov Signed-off-by: Steve French --- Reading git-diff-tree failed