On Wed, Jun 27, 2018 at 11:34 AM, Jefferson Carpenter <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
Isn't this what we have Meltdown and Spectre for? ;-) No, memory from the kernel is always zeroed. libc offers malloc() and calloc() for this purpose. -- Thanks, //richard
