Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 22 Feb 2021 12:23:59 +0200 | From | Mike Rapoport <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v17 08/10] PM: hibernate: disable when there are active secretmem users |
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On Mon, Feb 22, 2021 at 07:34:52AM +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Mon, Feb 08, 2021 at 10:49:18AM +0200, Mike Rapoport wrote: > > > It is unsafe to allow saving of secretmem areas to the hibernation > > snapshot as they would be visible after the resume and this essentially > > will defeat the purpose of secret memory mappings. > > Sorry for being a bit late to this - from the point of view of running > processes (and even the kernel once resume is complete), hibernation is > effectively equivalent to suspend to RAM. Why do they need to be handled > differently here?
Hibernation leaves a copy of the data on the disk which we want to prevent.
-- Sincerely yours, Mike.
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