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Date:      Sun, 18 Jun 2006 19:33:16 +0200
From:      des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?=)
To:        "Nick Borisov" <neiro21@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: memory pages nulling when releasing
Message-ID:  <86odwqs71f.fsf@xps.des.no>
In-Reply-To: <3bcb4e3f0606180127m3c4fdb13n2b42deb881b7bdc6@mail.gmail.com> (Nick Borisov's message of "Sun, 18 Jun 2006 12:27:22 %2B0400")
References:  <3bcb4e3f0606180056o63424cc0g5c121443e45fa333@mail.gmail.com> <3bcb4e3f0606180127m3c4fdb13n2b42deb881b7bdc6@mail.gmail.com>

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"Nick Borisov" <neiro21@gmail.com> writes:
> Could you tell me if FreeBSD supports memory page nulling when
> releasing it to prevent unauthorized access to data left in the page
> after it's allocated again.

Processes always get zeroed pages from the kernel.  This is the case
for all Unices, and has been for decades.

DES
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Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no



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