webrtc/rtc_base/zero_memory.h
Joachim Bauch 58daf40bad Add functions to securely fill memory with zeros.
Various places are using "memset(ptr, 0, size)" which might get optimized
away by the compiler if "ptr" is not used afterwards. The new functions
can be used to securely clear memory instead.

Bug: None
Change-Id: I067a51d17ff84d95dc4934d46a24027fbcb4825d
Reviewed-on: https://webrtc-review.googlesource.com/35500
Reviewed-by: Karl Wiberg <kwiberg@webrtc.org>
Commit-Queue: Joachim Bauch <jbauch@webrtc.org>
Cr-Commit-Position: refs/heads/master@{#21706}
2018-01-20 16:57:27 +00:00

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/*
* Copyright 2017 The WebRTC Project Authors. All rights reserved.
*
* Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license
* that can be found in the LICENSE file in the root of the source
* tree. An additional intellectual property rights grant can be found
* in the file PATENTS. All contributing project authors may
* be found in the AUTHORS file in the root of the source tree.
*/
#ifndef RTC_BASE_ZERO_MEMORY_H_
#define RTC_BASE_ZERO_MEMORY_H_
#include <type_traits>
#include "api/array_view.h"
namespace rtc {
// Fill memory with zeros in a way that the compiler doesn't optimize it away
// even if the pointer is not used afterwards.
void ExplicitZeroMemory(void* ptr, size_t len);
template <typename T,
typename std::enable_if<!std::is_const<T>::value &&
std::is_trivial<T>::value>::type* = nullptr>
void ExplicitZeroMemory(rtc::ArrayView<T> a) {
ExplicitZeroMemory(a.data(), a.size());
}
} // namespace rtc
#endif // RTC_BASE_ZERO_MEMORY_H_