string/explicit_bzero.c

   1 /* Erasure of sensitive data, generic implementation.
   2    Copyright (C) 2016-2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
   3    This file is part of the GNU C Library.
   4
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   7    License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
   8    version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
   9
  10    The GNU C Library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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  13    Lesser General Public License for more details.
  14
  15    You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
  16    License along with the GNU C Library; if not, see
  17    <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.  */
  18
  19 /* An assembler implementation of explicit_bzero can be created as an
  20    assembler alias of an optimized bzero implementation.
  21    Architecture-specific implementations also need to define
  22    __explicit_bzero_chk.  */
  23
  24 #include <string.h>
  25
  26 /* glibc-internal users use __explicit_bzero_chk, and explicit_bzero
  27    redirects to that.  */
  28 #undef explicit_bzero
  29
  30 /* Set LEN bytes of S to 0.  The compiler will not delete a call to
  31    this function, even if S is dead after the call.  */
  32 void
  33 explicit_bzero (void *s, size_t len)
  34 {
  35   memset (s, '\0', len);
  36   /* Compiler barrier.  */
  37   asm volatile ("" ::: "memory");
  38 }