[SSSD] [PATCH 2/4] Add function to safely wipe memory.

Simo Sorce simo at redhat.com
Wed Nov 7 21:01:41 UTC 2012


This is useful for wiping passwords, as it prevents the compiler from
optimizing out a memset to zero before a free()
---
 src/util/util.c |    9 +++++++++
 src/util/util.h |   10 ++++++++++
 2 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/util/util.c b/src/util/util.c
index b812ef1b118803129caae25247efcbc1194b22f5..061291c04bb581082aa98d79b6b1ec1a1d1090ac 100644
--- a/src/util/util.c
+++ b/src/util/util.c
@@ -634,3 +634,12 @@ remove_ipv6_brackets(char *ipv6addr)
 
     return EOK;
 }
+
+void safezero(void *data, size_t size)
+{
+    volatile uint8_t *p = data;
+
+    while (size--) {
+        *p++ = 0;
+    }
+}
diff --git a/src/util/util.h b/src/util/util.h
index d9315aefe0b88965a492f1bc56a6c940ebec5ad5..93791135322a9aeb4ce473c5e255a6e538c57d90 100644
--- a/src/util/util.h
+++ b/src/util/util.h
@@ -535,6 +535,16 @@ sss_escape_ip_address(TALLOC_CTX *mem_ctx, int family, const char *addr);
 errno_t
 remove_ipv6_brackets(char *ipv6addr);
 
+
+/**
+ * @brief Safely zero a segment of memory,
+ *        prevents the compiler from optimizing out
+ *
+ * @param data   The address of buffer to wipe
+ * @param s      Size of the buffer
+ */
+void safezero(void *data, size_t size);
+
 /* from sss_tc_utf8.c */
 char *
 sss_tc_utf8_str_tolower(TALLOC_CTX *mem_ctx, const char *s);
-- 
1.7.1




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