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Also, fallocate+chmod is racy: between the two calls, an attacker could open the file, and then keep it open until next reboot. OTOH, mkswap creates the swap fi

• zahlman 23d ago
  > between the two calls, an attacker could open the file, and then keep it open until next reboot. I feel like if there's a malicious user (or program) on your system with the necessary access for this, you have much bigger problems.