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Re: Revised keyrings(7) man page for review

From David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: Revised keyrings(7) man page for review
Date 2016-12-13 15:30 +0100
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Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> wrote:

>               The payload data may  be  stored  in  a  tmpfs  filesystem,
>               rather  than in kernel memory, if the data size exceeds the
>               overhead of storing the data in the  filesystem.   (Storing
>               the  data in a filesystem requires filesystem structures to
>               be allocated in the kernel.  The size of  these  structures
>               determines the size threshold above which the tmpfs storage
>               method is used.)  Since Linux  4.8,  the  payload  data  is
>               encrypted when stored in tmpfs, to prevent it being written
>               unencrypted into swap space.

"... thereby preventing it from being written unencrypted into the swapspace"?

David

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Re: Revised keyrings(7) man page for review David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-12-13 12:40 +0100
  Re: Revised keyrings(7) man page for review "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> - 2016-12-13 13:50 +0100
    Re: Revised keyrings(7) man page for review "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> - 2016-12-13 14:00 +0100
      Re: Revised keyrings(7) man page for review David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-12-13 14:40 +0100
        Re: Revised keyrings(7) man page for review "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> - 2016-12-13 15:00 +0100
          Re: Revised keyrings(7) man page for review David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-12-13 15:30 +0100
            Re: Revised keyrings(7) man page for review "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> - 2016-12-14 08:30 +0100
    Re: Revised keyrings(7) man page for review David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-12-13 14:40 +0100
      Re: Revised keyrings(7) man page for review "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> - 2016-12-13 14:50 +0100

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