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Introduce a new utility function smemclr(), which memsets things to

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zero but does it in such a way that over-clever compilers hopefully
won't helpfully optimise the call away if you do it just before
freeing something or letting it go out of scope. Use this for
(hopefully) every memset whose job is to destroy sensitive data that
might otherwise be left lying around in the process's memory.

[originally from svn r9586]
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Simon Tatham
2012-07-22 19:51:50 +00:00
parent acf8a5385d
commit aa5bae8916
21 changed files with 140 additions and 89 deletions
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@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ void cmdline_cleanup(void)
int pri;
if (cmdline_password) {
memset(cmdline_password, 0, strlen(cmdline_password));
smemclr(cmdline_password, strlen(cmdline_password));
sfree(cmdline_password);
cmdline_password = NULL;
}
@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ int cmdline_get_passwd_input(prompts_t *p, unsigned char *in, int inlen) {
return 0;
prompt_set_result(p->prompts[0], cmdline_password);
memset(cmdline_password, 0, strlen(cmdline_password));
smemclr(cmdline_password, strlen(cmdline_password));
sfree(cmdline_password);
cmdline_password = NULL;
tried_once = 1;
@ -368,7 +368,7 @@ int cmdline_process_param(char *p, char *value, int need_save, Conf *conf)
/* Assuming that `value' is directly from argv, make a good faith
* attempt to trample it, to stop it showing up in `ps' output
* on Unix-like systems. Not guaranteed, of course. */
memset(value, 0, strlen(value));
smemclr(value, strlen(value));
}
}