Re: [patch 1/8] slab: introduce kzfree()

From: Christoph Lameter
Date: Tue Feb 17 2009 - 10:16:31 EST


Why would you want to zero an object on release? Is this for security?

Please give us some rationale for this. Do we need free on zero now for
all allocators?


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