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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/fscrypt.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/fscrypt.rst index 004f7fa48a46..e80329908549 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/fscrypt.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/fscrypt.rst @@ -137,9 +137,8 @@ However, these ioctls have some limitations: - In general, decrypted contents and filenames in the kernel VFS caches are freed but not wiped. Therefore, portions thereof may be recoverable from freed memory, even after the corresponding key(s) - were wiped. To partially solve this, you can set - CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING=y in your kernel config and add page_poison=1 - to your kernel command line. However, this has a performance cost. + were wiped. To partially solve this, you can add init_on_free=1 to + your kernel command line. However, this has a performance cost. - Secret keys might still exist in CPU registers, in crypto accelerator hardware (if used by the crypto API to implement any of |