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Component PAGE_POISONING

Component Type: kbuild config

Description: Poison pages after freeing

More info: Fill the pages with poison patterns after free_pages() and verify the patterns before alloc_pages. The filling of the memory helps reduce the risk of information leaks from freed data. This does have a potential performance impact if enabled with the "page_poison=1" kernel boot option. Note that "poison" here is not the same thing as the "HWPoison" for CONFIG_MEMORY_FAILURE. This is software poisoning only. If you are only interested in sanitization of freed pages without checking the poison pattern on alloc, you can boot the kernel with "init_on_free=1" instead of enabling this. If unsure, say N

Build project: Kconfig (Linux kconfig) (Path: Kconfig )

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