ram device not initialised to zero in 2.4.8

Peter T. Breuer (ptb@it.uc3m.es)
Thu, 23 Aug 2001 23:53:43 +0200 (CEST)

I don't see what harm it does, but the ram devices are full of
interesting data if you read them after setting them up. Either
this is a security hole waiting to happen, or somebody is being
very inventive with the fill ...

I did

mke2fs -m0 /dev/ram2 4096
dd if=/dev/ram2 | od -a | less

and had a good read.

Peter
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