Hi Sebastian,
On Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 10:12 AM, Sebastian Ott
<[email protected]> wrote:
> commit 57bf5a8963f80fb3828c46c3e3a5b2dd790e09a7 broke usage of dma
> allocations specifying __GFP_ZERO by silently removing that flag.
How did it break? The flag is now always added.
> Why should "the memory returned [] always be zeroed."?
To avoid leaking information.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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