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| author | Alexander Bluhm <bluhm@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2019-01-08 13:05:37 +0000 |
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| committer | Alexander Bluhm <bluhm@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2019-01-08 13:05:37 +0000 |
| commit | 3cfa3f01606c1e88b8fd42b3451f7339673179d5 (patch) | |
| tree | d558c360f97c2964bd6f05c49baf13ef8e7cbe69 /lib | |
| parent | e8edb51542bc04bf0ccbfef4441b7ded03fba646 (diff) | |
Document SO_ZEROIZE socket option.
OK claudio@
Diffstat (limited to 'lib')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/libc/sys/getsockopt.2 | 11 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/sys/getsockopt.2 b/lib/libc/sys/getsockopt.2 index ccfaa38907b..1efb6f6f418 100644 --- a/lib/libc/sys/getsockopt.2 +++ b/lib/libc/sys/getsockopt.2 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: getsockopt.2,v 1.51 2016/10/19 05:50:54 jmc Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: getsockopt.2,v 1.52 2019/01/08 13:05:36 bluhm Exp $ .\" $NetBSD: getsockopt.2,v 1.7 1995/02/27 12:33:29 cgd Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1983, 1991, 1993 @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ .\" .\" @(#)getsockopt.2 8.3 (Berkeley) 4/19/94 .\" -.Dd $Mdocdate: October 19 2016 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: January 8 2019 $ .Dt GETSOCKOPT 2 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -168,6 +168,8 @@ get the credentials from other side of connection set the routing table used for route lookups .It Dv SO_SPLICE splice two sockets together or get data length +.It Dv SO_ZEROIZE +clear all memory containing user supplied data .It Dv SO_TYPE get the type of the socket (get only) .It Dv SO_ERROR @@ -442,6 +444,11 @@ source socket .Fa s . A successful new splice resets this number. .Pp +User land may write sensitive data into a socket. +If +.Dv SO_ZEROIZE +is set, overwrite kernel memory after sending data. +.Pp Finally, .Dv SO_TYPE and |