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diff --git a/security/Kconfig.hardening b/security/Kconfig.hardening
index 2cff851ebfd7..effbf5982be1 100644
--- a/security/Kconfig.hardening
+++ b/security/Kconfig.hardening
@@ -255,6 +255,21 @@ config INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON
touching "cold" memory areas. Most cases see 3-5% impact. Some
synthetic workloads have measured as high as 8%.
+config INIT_MLOCKED_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON
+ bool "Enable mlocked memory zeroing on free"
+ depends on !KMSAN
+ help
+ This config has the effect of setting "init_mlocked_on_free=1"
+ on the kernel command line. If it is enabled, all mlocked process
+ memory is zeroed when freed. This restriction to mlocked memory
+ improves performance over "init_on_free" but can still be used to
+ protect confidential data like key material from content exposures
+ to other processes, as well as live forensics and cold boot attacks.
+ Any non-mlocked memory is not cleared before it is reassigned. This
+ configuration can be overwritten by setting "init_mlocked_on_free=0"
+ on the command line. The "init_on_free" boot option takes
+ precedence over "init_mlocked_on_free".
+
config CC_HAS_ZERO_CALL_USED_REGS
def_bool $(cc-option,-fzero-call-used-regs=used-gpr)
# https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1766