From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Linux List Kernel Mailing <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] meminit fix for v5.3-rc2
Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2019 12:50:18 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHk-=whUmaEX0HATrs1Nsde3Nz+MXn=Tg1_9jL8u2Rd5Wz=oCg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHk-=wj+1vDh2=eZExibYF9Lo0GsGxaAjxCSwpUFVURrN44cUQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Sun, Jul 28, 2019 at 12:43 PM Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> Side note: I find "meminit" a confusing description for the structleak
> thing.
Not that 'structleak' is all that much better, because it's not
necessarily just about structs either.
'stack variable initialization' is too long. I dunno. But it's more
about "variables" (and in the case of kmalloc etc - perhaps
'allocations') than "memory", I feel.
The point is that in the kernel we do memory management and memory
initialization, and that's something very different.
Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-07-28 19:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-07-28 19:21 [GIT PULL] meminit fix for v5.3-rc2 Kees Cook
2019-07-28 19:43 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-07-28 19:50 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2019-07-28 22:16 ` Kees Cook
2019-07-30 13:53 ` Alexander Potapenko
2019-07-30 19:53 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-07-31 11:30 ` Alexander Potapenko
2019-07-28 19:50 ` pr-tracker-bot
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