util: virsecureerase: Introduce virSecureEraseString

Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/util/virsecureerase.c b/src/util/virsecureerase.c
index 1dc3bb476a..ead12803da 100644
--- a/src/util/virsecureerase.c
+++ b/src/util/virsecureerase.c
@@ -42,3 +42,16 @@ virSecureErase(void *ptr,
 
     memset(ptr, 0, size);
 }
+
+/**
+ * virSecureEraseString:
+ * @str: String to securely erase
+ */
+void
+virSecureEraseString(char *str)
+{
+    if (!str)
+        return;
+
+    virSecureErase(str, strlen(str));
+}