On Wed, 4 Jan 2006, Jörn Engel wrote:
> On Wed, 4 January 2006 12:28:59 -0800, Randy.Dunlap wrote:
> > On Wed, 4 Jan 2006, Stefan Rompf wrote:
> > > Am Mittwoch 04 Januar 2006 21:09 schrieb Arjan van de Ven:
> > >
> > > > since a memset right before a free is a very unusual code pattern in the
> > > > kernel it may well be worth putting a short comment around it to prevent
> > > > someone later removing it as "optimization"
> > >
> > > Valid objection, here is an update (and see, I'm running 2.6.15 now ;-)
> >
> > A reason "why" would be more helpful that a "what".
>
> "prevent information leak"
>
> This is still a "what", but at least not a "how".
OK, that's a much better changelog entry or source code comment...
if it could be put in one of those places.
Thanks.
--
~Randy
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