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[69.180.151.171]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id w139-v6sm2943255iow.61.2018.06.27.02.34.58 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Wed, 27 Jun 2018 02:34:59 -0700 (PDT) To: Linux Kernel Mailing List From: Jefferson Carpenter Subject: Memory zeroed when made available to user process Message-ID: <71d13d76-4591-9206-ebbb-5e9599f10c7c@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2018 09:34:51 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Is there a way for a user process to mark memory as 'sensitive' or 'non-sensitive' when it is allocated? That could allow it not to have to be zeroed before being allocated to another process.