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

[Pekka Enberg]

On Tue, 2009-02-17 at 10:08 -0500, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> 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?

All the call-sites zero out before kfree() for security reasons. But
yeah, we should put that in the patch description as well.

Johannes, I suppose it would make sense to resend the series to Andrew
with all the updates?

			Pekka

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