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-rw-r--r--lib/libc/string/Makefile.inc4
-rw-r--r--lib/libc/string/Symbol.map4
-rw-r--r--lib/libc/string/bzero.320
-rw-r--r--lib/libc/string/explicit_bzero.c22
4 files changed, 47 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/string/Makefile.inc b/lib/libc/string/Makefile.inc
index 731f4fc..385837c 100644
--- a/lib/libc/string/Makefile.inc
+++ b/lib/libc/string/Makefile.inc
@@ -6,7 +6,8 @@
CFLAGS+= -I${LIBC_SRCTOP}/locale
# machine-independent string sources
-MISRCS+=bcmp.c bcopy.c bzero.c ffs.c ffsl.c ffsll.c fls.c flsl.c flsll.c \
+MISRCS+=bcmp.c bcopy.c bzero.c explicit_bzero.c \
+ ffs.c ffsl.c ffsll.c fls.c flsl.c flsll.c \
memccpy.c memchr.c memrchr.c memcmp.c \
memcpy.c memmem.c memmove.c memset.c \
stpcpy.c stpncpy.c strcasecmp.c \
@@ -35,6 +36,7 @@ MAN+= bcmp.3 bcopy.3 bstring.3 bzero.3 ffs.3 index.3 memccpy.3 memchr.3 \
strspn.3 strstr.3 strtok.3 strxfrm.3 swab.3 wcscoll.3 wcstok.3 \
wcswidth.3 wcsxfrm.3 wmemchr.3
+MLINKS+=bzero.3 explicit_bzero.3
MLINKS+=ffs.3 ffsl.3 \
ffs.3 ffsll.3 \
ffs.3 fls.3 \
diff --git a/lib/libc/string/Symbol.map b/lib/libc/string/Symbol.map
index 8e80165..5961092 100644
--- a/lib/libc/string/Symbol.map
+++ b/lib/libc/string/Symbol.map
@@ -100,6 +100,10 @@ FBSD_1.3 {
wcwidth_l;
};
+FBSD_1.4 {
+ explicit_bzero;
+};
+
FBSDprivate_1.0 {
__strtok_r;
};
diff --git a/lib/libc/string/bzero.3 b/lib/libc/string/bzero.3
index 029644a..5af1bcf 100644
--- a/lib/libc/string/bzero.3
+++ b/lib/libc/string/bzero.3
@@ -31,11 +31,12 @@
.\" @(#)bzero.3 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
-.Dd June 4, 1993
+.Dd October 6, 2014
.Dt BZERO 3
.Os
.Sh NAME
-.Nm bzero
+.Nm bzero ,
+.Nm explicit_bzero
.Nd write zeroes to a byte string
.Sh LIBRARY
.Lb libc
@@ -43,6 +44,8 @@
.In strings.h
.Ft void
.Fn bzero "void *b" "size_t len"
+.Ft void
+.Fn explicit_bzero "void *b" "size_t len"
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Fn bzero
@@ -56,6 +59,12 @@ If
is zero,
.Fn bzero
does nothing.
+.Pp
+The
+.Fn explicit_bzero
+variant behaves the same, but will not be removed by a compiler's dead store
+optimization pass, making it useful for clearing sensitive memory such as a
+password.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr memset 3 ,
.Xr swab 3
@@ -72,3 +81,10 @@ before it was moved to
for
.St -p1003.1-2001
compliance.
+.Pp
+The
+.Fn explicit_bzero
+function first appeared in
+.Ox 5.5
+and
+.Fx 11.0 .
diff --git a/lib/libc/string/explicit_bzero.c b/lib/libc/string/explicit_bzero.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a7811b0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/libc/string/explicit_bzero.c
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+/* $OpenBSD: explicit_bzero.c,v 1.3 2014/06/21 02:34:26 matthew Exp $ */
+/*
+ * Public domain.
+ * Written by Matthew Dempsky.
+ */
+
+#include <sys/cdefs.h>
+__FBSDID("$FreeBSD$");
+
+#include <string.h>
+
+__attribute__((weak)) void
+__explicit_bzero_hook(void *buf, size_t len)
+{
+}
+
+void
+explicit_bzero(void *buf, size_t len)
+{
+ memset(buf, 0, len);
+ __explicit_bzero_hook(buf, len);
+}
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