Re: [PATCH v4 2/3] mm/page_alloc.c: add config option to sanitize freed pages

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Mon May 18 2015 - 07:22:05 EST


On Thu 2015-05-14 16:19:47, Anisse Astier wrote:
> This new config option will sanitize all freed pages. This is a pretty
> low-level change useful to track some cases of use-after-free, help
> kernel same-page merging in VM environments, and counter a few info
> leaks.

Could you document the "few info leaks"? We may want to fix them for
!SANTIZE_FREED_PAGES case, too...

Thanks,
Pavel
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