http://lwn.net/Articles/117736/ This is a special feed containing comments posted to the individual LWN article titled "alloc_skb_from_cache()". hourly 2 http://lwn.net/Articles/118455/rss 2005-01-10T14:32:56+00:00 ami.ganguli It's more a question of the assumptions that users of a given API make about security.<br> <p> In the general memory allocation case, users of the APIs assume that information in freed memory is gone forever and won't be readable by another user later on.<br> <p> Users that send data over a network don't (or shouldn't) assume that the data is private. If they require privacy, they know they must take additional steps to ensure it.<br> <p> <p> http://lwn.net/Articles/118397/rss 2005-01-09T14:23:18+00:00 jcm ...assuming the original packet came from a public real, physcial bit of wet string ethernet.<br> <p> Jon.<br> <p>