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SubjectRe: [PATCH] mm: Add kvfree_sensitive() for freeing sensitive data objects
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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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