linux-kernel - Re: Is kernel optimized with dead store removal?

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Date:	Thu, 25 Feb 2010 19:24:26 +0100
From:	Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>
To:	Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@...uu.se>
CC:	Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@...il.com>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Is kernel optimized with dead store removal?

Mikael Pettersson wrote:
> It's only vulnerable if the data leaks to a less trusted domain.
> There is no domain crossing in your user-space example.
> In the kernel case, the domain crossing would be as I wrote: leaking
> recycled and uninitialized memory to user-space (and those leaks of
> uninitialized memory are frowned upon and quickly fixed when discovered).

Quickly fixed when discovered, but not necessary quickly discovered...
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