Re: [kernel-hardening] Re: [PATCH] KERNEL: resource: Fix bug on leakage in /proc/iomem file

Borislav Petkov
2016-04-06T19:19:36Z

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. :-)

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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.

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