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As I said, new kernels zero the pages, an uninitialized area is likely to be zeroed or be rather deterministic.
by LtWorf 1y ago
As I said, new kernels zero the pages, an uninitialized area is likely to be zeroed or be rather deterministic.
- lmm 1y agoWhich is fine. It's not a bug if it's zero. There's just no point going out of your way to set it to zero when you're only going to xor a bunch of random values into it anyway.
- LtWorf 1y agoThe whole issue was caused because it was always zero because the patch zeroed it (: Can you please read about the issue before commenting more?
- lmm 1y ago> The whole issue was caused because it was always zero because the patch zeroed it (: No it wasn't. The patch removed the read of the randomness buffer that folded it into another buffer (the MD_Update calls) because Valgrind was warning that the buffer it was reading from had never been initialised. > Can you please read about the issue before commenting more? Right back at you.