commit 346177255931fb1e3514e124a1f598715a5fe92d
author Paul Bakker <p.j.bakker@polarssl.org> Fri Jun 13 17:20:13 2014 +0200
committer Paul Bakker <p.j.bakker@polarssl.org> Sat Jun 14 16:46:03 2014 +0200
tree da658994944be861b8b2a1001c9b759976276891
parent bbcb1ce7030575d708700ca205800e847d846402

Introduce polarssl_zeroize() instead of memset() for zeroization

library/md.c

diff --git a/library/md.c b/library/md.c
index 4a92cd4..558f829 100644
--- a/library/md.c
+++ b/library/md.c
@@ -45,6 +45,11 @@
 #define strcasecmp  _stricmp
 #endif
 
+/* Implementation that should never be optimized out by the compiler */
+static void polarssl_zeroize( void *v, size_t n ) {
+    volatile unsigned char *p = v; while( n-- ) *p++ = 0;
+}
+
 static const int supported_digests[] = {
 
 #if defined(POLARSSL_MD2_C)
@@ -190,7 +195,8 @@
         return POLARSSL_ERR_MD_BAD_INPUT_DATA;
 
     ctx->md_info->ctx_free_func( ctx->md_ctx );
-    ctx->md_ctx = NULL;
+
+    polarssl_zeroize( ctx, sizeof( md_context_t ) );
 
     return 0;
 }