Hi,


> If an application has sensitive data in a buffer that it's going to
> free, it should clear the buffer itself before actually freeing it.

While this may be good advice for security related data, you surely
don't mean to say that the kernel isn't in the duty to only hand out
appropriately initialized memory, do you?

Ciao,
Wolfgang
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