Re: Memory zeroed when made available to user process

[Richard Weinberger]

On Wed, Jun 27, 2018 at 11:34 AM, Jefferson Carpenter
<jeffersoncarpenter2@xxxxxxxxx> 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