Re: Revised keyrings(7) man page for review

[Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)]

On 12/13/2016 03:20 PM, David Howells wrote:
> Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) <mtk.manpages@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>>               The payload data may  be  stored  in  a  tmpfs  filesystem,
>>               rather  than in kernel memory, if the data size exceeds the
>>               overhead of storing the data in the  filesystem.   (Storing
>>               the  data in a filesystem requires filesystem structures to
>>               be allocated in the kernel.  The size of  these  structures
>>               determines the size threshold above which the tmpfs storage
>>               method is used.)  Since Linux  4.8,  the  payload  data  is
>>               encrypted when stored in tmpfs, to prevent it being written
>>               unencrypted into swap space.
> 
> "... thereby preventing it from being written unencrypted into the swapspace"?

Fixed.

Thanks,

Michael

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