linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3] mm: Add kvfree_sensitive() for freeing sensitive data objects

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Date:   Tue, 7 Apr 2020 16:24:26 -0400
From:   Waiman Long <longman@...hat.com>
To:     David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@...ux.intel.com>,
        James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>,
        "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@...lyn.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        keyrings@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] mm: Add kvfree_sensitive() for freeing sensitive data
 objects

On 4/7/20 4:19 PM, David Howells wrote:
> Waiman Long <longman@...hat.com> wrote:
>
>> sensitive data objects allocated by kvmalloc(). The relevnat places
> "relevant".

Oh, sorry about the typo. Maybe Andrew can fix it.

Cheers,
Longman