From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: Yves-Alexis Perez <corsac@debian.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
"kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com"
<kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com>,
Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>, Emrah Demir <ed@abdsec.com>,
Dan Rosenberg <dan.j.rosenberg@gmail.com>,
Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [kernel-hardening] Re: [PATCH] KERNEL: resource: Fix bug on leakage in /proc/iomem file
Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2016 21:19:29 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160406191929.GA12088@pd.tnic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1459969867.2818.28.camel@debian.org>
On Wed, Apr 06, 2016 at 09:11:07PM +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> On mer., 2016-04-06 at 12:02 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > So yeah, maybe swap partitions are still more common than I thought.
> > And I didn't even consider the possibility that people would hibernate
> > a desktop like you do.
>
> To be fair, it's *my* use case, because suspend won't work but I'm lazy and
> don't like to reopen everything I was doing, but still have to shut the
> machine down once in a while (or to save power).
I'm doing exactly the same thing with my workstation:
echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
echo "shutdown" > /sys/power/disk
echo "disk" > /sys/power/state
*exactly* because I don't want to restart everything. :-)
--
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
ECO tip #101: Trim your mails when you reply.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-04-06 19:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-04-06 13:03 [PATCH] KERNEL: resource: Fix bug on leakage in /proc/iomem file Emrah Demir
2016-04-06 15:20 ` Linus Torvalds
2016-04-06 17:54 ` Linus Torvalds
2016-04-06 18:05 ` ed
2016-04-06 18:21 ` Kees Cook
2016-04-06 18:31 ` Linus Torvalds
2016-04-06 18:37 ` Kees Cook
2016-04-06 18:43 ` Linus Torvalds
2016-04-06 18:53 ` [kernel-hardening] " Yves-Alexis Perez
2016-04-06 19:02 ` Linus Torvalds
2016-04-06 19:11 ` Yves-Alexis Perez
2016-04-06 19:19 ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
2016-04-06 20:49 ` Ingo Molnar
2016-04-06 19:23 ` Bjørn Mork
2016-04-06 18:52 ` Christian Kujau
2016-04-06 18:53 ` Kees Cook
2016-04-06 21:19 ` Linus Torvalds
2016-04-06 21:27 ` Kees Cook
2016-04-06 21:32 ` Linus Torvalds
2016-04-14 4:27 ` Kees Cook
2016-04-14 7:39 ` Emrah Demir
2016-04-06 18:03 ` Kees Cook
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