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From: Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@eu.citrix.com>
To: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com>,
	"Xen-Devel (E-mail)" <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>
Subject: Re: New heap API and scrubbing
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 07:58:07 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <C5B8358F.192E%keir.fraser@eu.citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5af4178a-100f-4359-a4fa-5c8bc2227899@default>

On 10/02/2009 22:53, "Dan Magenheimer" <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com> wrote:

> Moreover, it appears that there are MANY calls throughout
> Xen to free_XXXheap_page/s() but I don't see much code
> that scrubs the pages before freeing them.  Isn't
> this a potential security issue?  Perhaps it should
> be easier to free+scrub pages?

Pages which are currently not scrubbed are either:
 1. Freed by a domain before it dies, so it has to scrub them.
 2. Xenheap pages or anonymous domheap pages which thus contained no guest
data and no security risk in not scrubbing them.

Feel free to add a free+scrub function.

 -- Keir

  reply	other threads:[~2009-02-11  7:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-10  0:24 New heap API and scrubbing Dan Magenheimer
2009-02-10  5:19 ` Keir Fraser
2009-02-10  8:22 ` Jan Beulich
2009-02-10  8:44   ` Keir Fraser
2009-02-10 22:53 ` Dan Magenheimer
2009-02-11  7:58   ` Keir Fraser [this message]
2009-02-11 14:20     ` Dan Magenheimer

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