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Thomas Haller
d984b2ce4a shared: move most of "shared/nm-utils" to "shared/nm-glib-aux"
From the files under "shared/nm-utils" we build an internal library
that provides glib-based helper utilities.

Move the files of that basic library to a new subdirectory
"shared/nm-glib-aux" and rename the helper library "libnm-core-base.la"
to "libnm-glib-aux.la".

Reasons:

 - the name "utils" is overused in our code-base. Everything's an
   "utils". Give this thing a more distinct name.

 - there were additional files under "shared/nm-utils", which are not
   part of this internal library "libnm-utils-base.la". All the files
   that are part of this library should be together in the same
   directory, but files that are not, should not be there.

 - the new name should better convey what this library is and what is isn't:
   it's a set of utilities and helper functions that extend glib with
   funcitonality that we commonly need.

There are still some files left under "shared/nm-utils". They have less
a unifying propose to be in their own directory, so I leave them there
for now. But at least they are separate from "shared/nm-glib-aux",
which has a very clear purpose.

(cherry picked from commit 80db06f768)
2019-04-18 19:57:27 +02:00
Thomas Haller
61aad8cda4 shared: better implement compat version of explicit_bzero()
If we don't have explicit_bzero(), try a bit harder and use
a volatile pointer.

This is also what libsecret's egg_secure_clear() does [1]. However, for
us this is less important, because commonly we expect glibc to provide
a useable explicit_bzero().

[1] b5442654d4/egg/egg-secure-memory.c (L1352)
2019-04-02 19:30:33 +02:00
Jason A. Donenfeld
92b27a4f88 shared: add nm_utils_memeqzero_secret()
[thaller@redhat.com: the code is effectively key_is_zero() by
  <Jason@zx2c4.com> (LGPL2.1+). I took it into our source tree
  and adjusted it to our style]

(cherry picked from commit 6234e41153)
2019-03-07 22:22:39 +01:00
Thomas Haller
b232508707 shared: add nm-secret-utils.h helper
We already had nm_free_secret() to clear the secret out
of a NUL terminated string. That works well for secrets
which are strings, it can be used with a cleanup attribute
(nm_auto_free_secret) and as a cleanup function for a
GBytes.

However, it does not work for secrets which are binary.
For those, we must also track the length of the allocated
data and clear it.

Add two new structs NMSecretPtr and NMSecretBuf to help
with that.
2018-09-04 07:38:30 +02:00