[gnutls-devel] GnuTLS | Use custom free/realloc for GMP to safely delete temporary secrets (!1554)

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Merge request https://gitlab.com/gnutls/gnutls/-/merge_requests/1554 was reviewed by Alexander Sosedkin

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Alexander Sosedkin commented on a discussion: https://gitlab.com/gnutls/gnutls/-/merge_requests/1554#note_877386489

... but then we don't zeroize, do we? Rendering this a partial fix until it starts passing the correct values.

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Alexander Sosedkin started a new discussion on lib/safe-memfuncs.c: https://gitlab.com/gnutls/gnutls/-/merge_requests/1554#note_877386494

> +		newptr = realloc(data, new_size);
> +		if (newptr == NULL)
> +			abort();

Why abort and not propagate?

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Alexander Sosedkin started a new discussion on lib/safe-memfuncs.c: https://gitlab.com/gnutls/gnutls/-/merge_requests/1554#note_877386496

> +		newptr = malloc(new_size);
> +		if (newptr == NULL)
> +			abort();

Ditto.

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Alexander Sosedkin started a new discussion on lib/safe-memfuncs.c: https://gitlab.com/gnutls/gnutls/-/merge_requests/1554#note_877386498

> +	newptr = malloc(new_size);
> +	if (newptr == NULL)
> +		abort();

Ditto.


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