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Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2019 22:26:54 -0700
From: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.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, Jun 17, 2019 at 10:19:32PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 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/
Heh whoops, yes, "threat" was intended. Thanks! :)
--
Kees Cook
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