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From: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
To: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mike.kravetz@oracle.com,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, colm@allcosts.net, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
	keescook@chromium.org, luto@amacapital.net, wad@chromium.org,
	mingo@kernel.org, dave.hansen@intel.com,
	linux-api@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] mm,fork,security: introduce MADV_WIPEONFORK
Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2017 14:42:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8fe8040c-7595-ec09-6ce7-0da4fadc82c4@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170809095957.kv47or2w4obaipkn@node.shutemov.name>

On 08/09/2017 11:59 AM, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> It's not obvious to me what would break if kernel would ignore
> MADV_DONTFORK or MADV_DONTDUMP.

Ignoring MADV_DONTDUMP could cause secrets to be written to disk,
contrary to the expected security policy of the system.

Thanks,
Florian

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-08-09 12:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20170806140425.20937-1-riel@redhat.com>
2017-08-07 13:22 ` [PATCH v2 0/2] mm,fork,security: introduce MADV_WIPEONFORK Michal Hocko
     [not found]   ` <20170807132257.GH32434-2MMpYkNvuYDjFM9bn6wA6Q@public.gmane.org>
2017-08-07 13:46     ` Michal Hocko
2017-08-07 14:19       ` Florian Weimer
2017-08-10 13:06         ` Michal Hocko
2017-08-07 14:59       ` Rik van Riel
     [not found]         ` <1502117991.6577.13.camel-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2017-08-09  9:59           ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2017-08-09 12:31             ` Rik van Riel
2017-08-09 12:42             ` Florian Weimer [this message]
2017-08-10 13:05         ` Michal Hocko
     [not found]           ` <20170810130531.GS23863-2MMpYkNvuYDjFM9bn6wA6Q@public.gmane.org>
2017-08-10 13:23             ` Colm MacCárthaigh
     [not found]               ` <CAAF6GDc2hsj-XJj=Rx2ZF6Sh3Ke6nKewABXfqQxQjfDd5QN7Ug-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2017-08-10 15:36                 ` Michal Hocko
2017-08-10 16:17                   ` Colm MacCárthaigh
     [not found]                     ` <CAAF6GDeno6RpHf1KORVSxUL7M-CQfbWFFdyKK8LAWd_6PcJ55Q-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2017-08-10 17:01                       ` Michal Hocko
     [not found]                         ` <20170810170144.GA987-2MMpYkNvuYDjFM9bn6wA6Q@public.gmane.org>
2017-08-10 22:09                           ` Colm MacCárthaigh
     [not found]                             ` <CAAF6GDdFjS612mx1TXzaVk1J-Afz9wsAywTEijO2TG4idxabiw-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2017-08-11 14:06                               ` Michal Hocko
     [not found]                                 ` <20170811140653.GO30811-2MMpYkNvuYDjFM9bn6wA6Q@public.gmane.org>
2017-08-11 14:11                                   ` Florian Weimer
     [not found]                                     ` <c8cda773-b28d-f35f-7f18-6735584cb173-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2017-08-11 14:24                                       ` Michal Hocko
     [not found]                                         ` <20170811142457.GP30811-2MMpYkNvuYDjFM9bn6wA6Q@public.gmane.org>
2017-08-11 15:24                                           ` Florian Weimer
2017-08-11 15:31                                             ` Michal Hocko
2017-08-07 15:55       ` Colm MacCárthaigh
2017-08-07 16:02         ` Colm MacCárthaigh
2017-08-10 13:21         ` Michal Hocko
2017-08-10 14:11           ` Michal Hocko

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