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Message-ID: <1459969867.2818.28.camel@debian.org>
Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2016 21:11:07 +0200
From: Yves-Alexis Perez <corsac@...ian.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: "kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com"
 <kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com>, Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>, 
 Emrah Demir <ed@...sec.com>, Dan Rosenberg <dan.j.rosenberg@...il.com>,
 Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>,  Linux Kernel Mailing List
 <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Re: [PATCH] KERNEL: resource: Fix bug on
 leakage in /proc/iomem file

On mer., 2016-04-06 at 12:02 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> So yeah, maybe swap partitions are still more common than I thought.
> And I didn't even consider the possibility that people would hibernate
> a desktop like you do.

To be fair, it's *my* use case, because suspend won't work but I'm lazy and
don't like to reopen everything I was doing, but still have to shut the
machine down once in a while (or to save power). And *I* would gladly trade
hibernation for kaslr and PAX_SANITIZE on those desktops.

Regards,
-- 
Yves-Alexis


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