Re: [patch 12/54] PM: hibernate: disable when there are active secretmem users

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On Wed, Jul 07, 2021 at 08:15:53PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 7, 2021 at 6:08 PM Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Prevent hibernation whenever there are active secret memory users.
> 
> So now anybody can not only use up all memory resources with these
> fake mlock regions, they can also force laptops to run out of battery
> and crash.

Again, this feature should be explicitly enabled on the command line, so
people that prefer hibernation to suspend-to-ram won't enable secretmem.

-- 
Sincerely yours,
Mike.



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