linux/drivers/staging/wlan-ng
Waiman Long 453431a549 mm, treewide: rename kzfree() to kfree_sensitive()
As said by Linus:

  A symmetric naming is only helpful if it implies symmetries in use.
  Otherwise it's actively misleading.

  In "kzalloc()", the z is meaningful and an important part of what the
  caller wants.

  In "kzfree()", the z is actively detrimental, because maybe in the
  future we really _might_ want to use that "memfill(0xdeadbeef)" or
  something. The "zero" part of the interface isn't even _relevant_.

The main reason that kzfree() exists is to clear sensitive information
that should not be leaked to other future users of the same memory
objects.

Rename kzfree() to kfree_sensitive() to follow the example of the recently
added kvfree_sensitive() and make the intention of the API more explicit.
In addition, memzero_explicit() is used to clear the memory to make sure
that it won't get optimized away by the compiler.

The renaming is done by using the command sequence:

  git grep -w --name-only kzfree |\
  xargs sed -i 's/kzfree/kfree_sensitive/'

followed by some editing of the kfree_sensitive() kerneldoc and adding
a kzfree backward compatibility macro in slab.h.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fs/crypto/inline_crypt.c needs linux/slab.h]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix fs/crypto/inline_crypt.c some more]

Suggested-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Cc: "Jason A . Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200616154311.12314-3-longman@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2020-08-07 11:33:22 -07:00
..
Kconfig staging/wlan-ng: add CRC32 dependency in Kconfig 2019-12-10 10:56:54 +01:00
Makefile
README
cfg80211.c staging: wlan-ng: Fix alignment to match open parenthesis 2020-07-21 16:52:47 +02:00
hfa384x.h staging: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member 2020-02-23 19:18:54 +01:00
hfa384x_usb.c staging: wlan-ng: fix use-after-free Read in hfa384x_usbin_callback 2020-03-26 15:47:26 +01:00
p80211conv.c staging: wlan-ng: Replace long int with long 2018-10-19 21:10:45 +02:00
p80211conv.h staging: wlan-ng: convert P80211SKB_RXMETA to inline function in p80211conv 2018-05-25 18:44:14 +02:00
p80211hdr.h staging: wlan-ng: replace WLAN_CTL_FRAMELEN with inline function in p80211hdr.h 2018-06-28 22:12:50 +09:00
p80211ioctl.h staging: wlan-ng: fix SPDX comment style in headers 2018-05-06 18:52:37 -07:00
p80211metadef.h staging: wlan-ng: remove "autogenerated code" comments 2018-09-28 14:43:52 +02:00
p80211metastruct.h staging: wlan-ng: remove "autogenerated code" comments 2018-09-28 14:43:52 +02:00
p80211mgmt.h staging: wlan-ng: fix SPDX comment style in headers 2018-05-06 18:52:37 -07:00
p80211msg.h staging: wlan-ng: fix SPDX comment style in headers 2018-05-06 18:52:37 -07:00
p80211netdev.c mm, treewide: rename kzfree() to kfree_sensitive() 2020-08-07 11:33:22 -07:00
p80211netdev.h staging: wlan-ng: fix coding style issues in p80211netdev.h 2018-05-20 14:34:25 +02:00
p80211req.c staging: wlan-ng: make switch case block format consistent 2018-09-28 14:43:52 +02:00
p80211req.h staging: wlan-ng: fix SPDX comment style in headers 2018-05-06 18:52:37 -07:00
p80211types.h staging: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member 2020-02-23 19:18:54 +01:00
p80211wep.c staging: wlan-ng: p80211wep.c: use lib/crc32 2019-10-07 12:32:43 +02:00
prism2fw.c staging: wlan-ng: prism2fw.c: Fix "Possible unnecessary 'out of memory' message" checkpatch.pl warning" 2019-01-07 08:56:07 +01:00
prism2mgmt.c staging: wlan-ng: ensure error return is actually returned 2020-01-15 13:11:41 +01:00
prism2mgmt.h staging: wlan-ng: fix SPDX comment style in headers 2018-05-06 18:52:37 -07:00
prism2mib.c staging: wlan-ng: Remove function prism2mib_excludeunencrypted() 2019-08-02 13:55:38 +02:00
prism2sta.c staging: wlan-ng: use "%*pE" for serial number 2019-07-22 07:34:12 +02:00
prism2usb.c staging: wlan-ng: properly check endpoint types 2020-07-22 19:49:37 +02:00

README

TODO:
	- checkpatch.pl cleanups
	- sparse warnings
	- move to use the in-kernel wireless stack

Please send any patches or complaints about this driver to Greg
Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com> and don't bother the upstream wireless
kernel developers about it, they want nothing to do with it.