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Guarantee zeroed memory buffers for cases where potential memory leak to disk can occur. In these cases, kmem_alloc is used and doesn't zero the buffer, opening the possibility of information leakage to disk. Use existing infrastucture (xfs_buf_allocate_memory) to obtain the already zeroed buffer from kernel memory. This solution avoids the performance issue that would occur if a wholesale change to replace kmem_alloc with kmem_zalloc was done. Signed-off-by: Bill O'Donnell <billodo@redhat.com> [darrick: fix bitwise complaint about kmflag_mask] Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.