Merge branch 'maint-0.2.4' into maint-0.2.5

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o Minor fixes (security):
- Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer
or zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow.
Closes bug #18089. Reported by "gk", patch by "teor".
Bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha (#7352),
commit 49dd5ef3 on 7 Nov 2012.

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/**
* Destroy the <b>sz</b> bytes of data stored at <b>mem</b>, setting them to
* the value <b>byte</b>.
* If <b>mem</b> is NULL or <b>sz</b> is zero, nothing happens.
*
* This function is preferable to memset, since many compilers will happily
* optimize out memset() when they can convince themselves that the data being
@ -3073,6 +3074,15 @@ secret_to_key(char *key_out, size_t key_out_len, const char *secret,
void
memwipe(void *mem, uint8_t byte, size_t sz)
{
if (sz == 0) {
return;
}
/* If sz is nonzero, then mem must not be NULL. */
tor_assert(mem != NULL);
/* Data this large is likely to be an underflow. */
tor_assert(sz < SIZE_T_CEILING);
/* Because whole-program-optimization exists, we may not be able to just
* have this function call "memset". A smart compiler could inline it, then
* eliminate dead memsets, and declare itself to be clever. */