Messages in this thread | | | From | David Howells <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] mm: Add kvfree_sensitive() for freeing sensitive data objects | Date | Mon, 06 Apr 2020 18:51:37 +0100 |
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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> > Add yet another alloc flag like __GFP_SENSITIVE > > and have kfree operate on that and not have a > > kfree_sensitive at all. > > That sounds potentially sensible. Maybe even a SLAB_SENSITIVE to mark > a whole slab cache sensitive for kmem_cache_create().
The allocation might be by vmalloc rather than kmalloc. I'm not sure if that makes things more difficult.
David
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