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[Xen-devel] Re: Xen-devel Digest, Vol 38, Issue 7

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Subject: [Xen-devel] Re: Xen-devel Digest, Vol 38, Issue 7
From: Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2008 13:57:12 +0100
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On 2/4/08 13:54, "Andrey Kuzmin" <andrey.v.kuzmin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> The domain is responsible for scrubbing its own secrets while it is alive.
> 
> But not when domain shuts down - otherwise it breaks (quite reasonable)
> kernel assumption that following shutdown memory pages won't be accessible
> so that there's no need to scrub them. Stefan's suggestion seem to plug that
> hole.

That is already correctly handled.

 -- Keir



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