Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754842AbcLNH2S (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Dec 2016 02:28:18 -0500 Received: from mail-wj0-f196.google.com ([209.85.210.196]:36628 "EHLO mail-wj0-f196.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750786AbcLNH2Q (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Dec 2016 02:28:16 -0500 Subject: Re: Revised keyrings(7) man page for review To: David Howells References: <51643019-bb42-4066-c824-c55b9e668ac6@man7.org> <25262.1481628931@warthog.procyon.org.uk> <9f32a79b-5795-bff4-b741-bf927a525149@gmail.com> <26913.1481636296@warthog.procyon.org.uk> <30566.1481638837@warthog.procyon.org.uk> Cc: mtk.manpages@gmail.com, lkml , Eugene Syromyatnikov , keyrings@vger.kernel.org, linux-man From: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" Message-ID: <2dea8ec1-0b1a-3d1e-da10-653a5d2f0838@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2016 08:27:22 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <30566.1481638837@warthog.procyon.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1034 Lines: 25 On 12/13/2016 03:20 PM, David Howells wrote: > Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: > >> The payload data may be stored in a tmpfs filesystem, >> rather than in kernel memory, if the data size exceeds the >> overhead of storing the data in the filesystem. (Storing >> the data in a filesystem requires filesystem structures to >> be allocated in the kernel. The size of these structures >> determines the size threshold above which the tmpfs storage >> method is used.) Since Linux 4.8, the payload data is >> encrypted when stored in tmpfs, to prevent it being written >> unencrypted into swap space. > > "... thereby preventing it from being written unencrypted into the swapspace"? Fixed. Thanks, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/