Re: [patch 0/5] Support for sanitization flag in low-level page allocator

Alan Cox
2009-05-22T13:37:59Z

> > performance point of view: we _dont_ want to clear the full stack
> > page for every kernel thread exiting.
>
> Burning the stack there is beyond overkill.

Yet most of our historic leaks have been padding bytes in stack based
structures. Your position seems very inconsistent.