[PATCH 03/20] eal: promote explicit zero and sensitive free to stable

Bruce Richardson bruce.richardson at intel.com
Thu Oct 8 12:01:06 CEST 2026


On Wed, Oct 07, 2026 at 02:39:33PM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> rte_memzero_explicit() and rte_free_sensitive() were added in 25.07 and
> have not changed since. They are used by the QAT crypto driver for
> asymmetric and symmetric session keys and by the ixgbe IPsec code, which
> are exactly the sensitive data paths they exist for.
> 
> An API for clearing keys is of little use to applications while it is
> marked as subject to change, so promote it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen at networkplumber.org>
> ---
Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson at intel.com>


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