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If I understand this change correctly it removes background zeroing of freed pages. What effect will this have on security? Grsecurity adds a feature which al
by ryuuchin 10y ago
If I understand this change correctly it removes background zeroing of freed pages.
What effect will this have on security? Grsecurity adds a feature which allows the linux kernel to sanitize freed pages[1]. I realize that the idle time freeing isn't the same as the immediate sanitation that grsecurity offers but I'm curious if this change has any effect on security in this manner.
[1] https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Grsecurity/Appendix/Grsecurity_and_PaX_Configuration_Options#Sanitize_all_freed_memory https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Grsecurity/Appendix/Grsecurity...
- PDoyle 10y agoNope. I draw your attention to this paragraph: > Zeroing the page at fault-time...