move m_burn and function attributes to dbhelpers

use m_burn for libtomcrypt zeromem() too

1 files changed, 25 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/dbhelpers.c b/dbhelpers.c
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+#include "dbhelpers.h"
+#include "includes.h"
+
+/* Erase data */
+void m_burn(void *data, unsigned int len) {
+
+#if defined(HAVE_MEMSET_S)
+	memset_s(data, len, 0x0, len);
+#elif defined(HAVE_EXPLICIT_BZERO)
+	explicit_bzero(data, len);
+#else
+/* Based on the method in David Wheeler's
+ * "Secure Programming for Linux and Unix HOWTO". May not be safe
+ * against link-time optimisation. */
+	volatile char *p = data;
+
+	if (data == NULL)
+		return;
+	while (len--) {
+		*p++ = 0x0;
+	}
+#endif
+}
+
+