[PATCH v7 1/2] mm: security: introduce init_on_alloc=1 and init_on_free=1 boot options

Kees Cook keescook at chromium.org
Tue Jun 18 05:26:54 UTC 2019


On Mon, Jun 17, 2019 at 10:19:32PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Jun 2019 22:07:41 -0700 Kees Cook <keescook at chromium.org> wrote:
> 
> > This is expected to be on-by-default on Android and Chrome
> > OS. And it gives the opportunity for anyone else to use it under distros
> > too via the boot args. (The init_on_free feature is regularly requested
> > by folks where memory forensics is included in their thread models.)
> 
> Thanks.  I added the above to the changelog.  I assumed s/thread/threat/

Heh whoops, yes, "threat" was intended. Thanks! :)

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Kees Cook



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