Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6

Pull crypto update from Herbert Xu:
 "Here is the crypto update for 3.20:

   - Added 192/256-bit key support to aesni GCM.
   - Added MIPS OCTEON MD5 support.
   - Fixed hwrng starvation and race conditions.
   - Added note that memzero_explicit is not a subsitute for memset.
   - Added user-space interface for crypto_rng.
   - Misc fixes"

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6: (71 commits)
  crypto: tcrypt - do not allocate iv on stack for aead speed tests
  crypto: testmgr - limit IV copy length in aead tests
  crypto: tcrypt - fix buflen reminder calculation
  crypto: testmgr - mark rfc4106(gcm(aes)) as fips_allowed
  crypto: caam - fix resource clean-up on error path for caam_jr_init
  crypto: caam - pair irq map and dispose in the same function
  crypto: ccp - terminate ccp_support array with empty element
  crypto: caam - remove unused local variable
  crypto: caam - remove dead code
  crypto: caam - don't emit ICV check failures to dmesg
  hwrng: virtio - drop extra empty line
  crypto: replace scatterwalk_sg_next with sg_next
  crypto: atmel - Free memory in error path
  crypto: doc - remove colons in comments
  crypto: seqiv - Ensure that IV size is at least 8 bytes
  crypto: cts - Weed out non-CBC algorithms
  MAINTAINERS: add linux-crypto to hw random
  crypto: cts - Remove bogus use of seqiv
  crypto: qat - don't need qat_auth_state struct
  crypto: algif_rng - fix sparse non static symbol warning
  ...

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/lib/string.c b/lib/string.c
index cdd97f431ae2..ce81aaec3839 100644
--- a/lib/string.c
+++ b/lib/string.c
@@ -596,6 +596,11 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(memset);
  * @s: Pointer to the start of the area.
  * @count: The size of the area.
  *
+ * Note: usually using memset() is just fine (!), but in cases
+ * where clearing out _local_ data at the end of a scope is
+ * necessary, memzero_explicit() should be used instead in
+ * order to prevent the compiler from optimising away zeroing.
+ *
  * memzero_explicit() doesn't need an arch-specific version as
  * it just invokes the one of memset() implicitly.
  */