When you malloc a memory or mmap a MAP_ANON memory, it is virtually 
allocated. When you read or write to it, the process takes a page fault. 
The page fault handler zeroes those memory and hands it to the process. 
So I think there is no leak.

-Fredrick

On 01/11/2012 04:53 AM, ??? wrote:

Hi,
    My tutor asked me to test whether one process leaves information in
memory after it is dead. I tried to search some article about such thing
on the Internet but there seems to be no one discuss about it. And after
that, I tried to write some program in the User Mode to test it, using
fork() to create lots of processes and filling char 'a' into a 102400
bytes char array in each process. Then I used malloc() to get some
memory to seek char 'a' in a new one process or many new processes, but
failed. All memory I malloced was full of zero.
    As the man page of malloc said:"The memory is not initialized", I
believe that the memory which was got by malloc() could be used by other
process, and therefor information leakage exists. But how can I test it?
Or where can I get related information?
    Thanks!


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