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Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2019 22:19:32 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>, Christoph Lameter
 <cl@...ux.com>, Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>, Michal
 Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>, James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>,
 "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@...lyn.com>, Nick Desaulniers
 <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>, Kostya Serebryany <kcc@...gle.com>, Dmitry
 Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>, Sandeep Patil <sspatil@...roid.com>, Laura
 Abbott <labbott@...hat.com>, Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>, Jann
 Horn <jannh@...gle.com>, Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>, Marco Elver
 <elver@...gle.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
 linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org, kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 1/2] mm: security: introduce init_on_alloc=1 and
 init_on_free=1 boot options

On Mon, 17 Jun 2019 22:07:41 -0700 Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.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/

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