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authorWerner Koch <[email protected]>2019-03-18 18:41:07 +0000
committerWerner Koch <[email protected]>2019-03-18 18:41:07 +0000
commita52d883fdbe6e0de8cb26f9c6aedf01a7f66cbe7 (patch)
treee59dfb41b24a12c314dbd1137637366315ac1453 /common/mischelp.c
parentkbx: Add framework for a public key daemon. (diff)
parentspeedo: Fix installer build with NSIS-3 (diff)
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Merge branch 'master' into switch-to-gpgk
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diff --git a/common/mischelp.c b/common/mischelp.c
index 75ba60714..81dd501f8 100644
--- a/common/mischelp.c
+++ b/common/mischelp.c
@@ -49,6 +49,22 @@
#include "mischelp.h"
+void
+wipememory (void *ptr, size_t len)
+{
+#if defined(HAVE_W32_SYSTEM) && defined(SecureZeroMemory)
+ SecureZeroMemory (ptr, len);
+#elif defined(HAVE_EXPLICIT_BZERO)
+ explicit_bzero (ptr, len);
+#else
+ /* Prevent compiler from optimizing away the call to memset by accessing
+ memset through volatile pointer. */
+ static void *(*volatile memset_ptr)(void *, int, size_t) = (void *)memset;
+ memset_ptr (ptr, 0, len);
+#endif
+}
+
+
/* Check whether the files NAME1 and NAME2 are identical. This is for
example achieved by comparing the inode numbers of the files. */
int