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On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 1:58 AM, Andrew Morton
<akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> > > ?But how to do that? ?Particular callsites don't get to alter
> > > ?kfree()'s behaviour. ?So they'd need to use a new kfree_sensitive().
> > > ?Which is just syntactic sugar around the code whihc we presently
> > > ?implement.

On 10:12 Sat 30 May, Pekka Enberg wrote:
>> Unless I am missing something here, we already have kfree_sensitive(),
>> we just call it kzfree().

On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 10:35 AM, Larry H. <research@subreption.com> wrote:
> You should test that. The results might be surprising, though.

So what's the problem with it?