mm, treewide: rename kzfree() to kfree_sensitive()

[linux-2.6-microblaze.git] / mm / slab_common.c

diff --git a/mm/slab_common.c b/mm/slab_common.c
index fe8b684..f47a097 100644 (file)
--- a/mm/slab_common.c
+++ b/mm/slab_common.c
@@ -1729,17 +1729,17 @@ void *krealloc(const void *p, size_t new_size, gfp_t flags)
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(krealloc);
 
 /**
- * kzfree - like kfree but zero memory
+ * kfree_sensitive - Clear sensitive information in memory before freeing
  * @p: object to free memory of
  *
  * The memory of the object @p points to is zeroed before freed.
- * If @p is %NULL, kzfree() does nothing.
+ * If @p is %NULL, kfree_sensitive() does nothing.
  *
  * Note: this function zeroes the whole allocated buffer which can be a good
  * deal bigger than the requested buffer size passed to kmalloc(). So be
  * careful when using this function in performance sensitive code.
  */
-void kzfree(const void *p)
+void kfree_sensitive(const void *p)
 {
        size_t ks;
        void *mem = (void *)p;
@@ -1750,7 +1750,7 @@ void kzfree(const void *p)
        memzero_explicit(mem, ks);
        kfree(mem);
 }
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(kzfree);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(kfree_sensitive);
 
 /**
  * ksize - get the actual amount of memory allocated for a given object