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SubjectRe: [PATCH] zerocopy NFS updated
On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 01:19:46PM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Could the garbage from ext3 in writeback mode be considered an
> information leak? I know that is why most places in the kernel
> initialize pages to 0. So you don't accidentally see what another
> user put there.

Yes it could. But then ext2/ffs have the same problem and so far people were
able to live on with that.

-Andi
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