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Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] dm-crypt: Adds support for wiping key when doing suspend/hibernation

From: Pavel Machek <hidden>
Date: 2015-07-28 14:44:25
Also in: dm-devel, linux-pm, lkml

On Sun 2015-06-21 13:20:34, Pali Rohár wrote:
This patch adds dm message commands and option strings to optionally wipe key
from dm-crypt device before entering suspend or hibernate state.

Before key is wiped dm device must be suspended. To prevent race conditions with
I/O and userspace processes, wiping action must be called after processes are
freezed. Otherwise userspace processes could start reading/writing to disk after
dm device is suspened and freezing processes before suspend/hibernate action
will fail.
Are you sure this is enough?

We still may need to allocate memory after userspace is frozen, and
that could mean writing dirty buffers out to make some memory free...

								Pavel
								
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