From: Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 02:23:52 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: cryptsetup: lock ourselves into memory as long as we deal with passwords
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cryptsetup: lock ourselves into memory as long as we deal with passwords
---

diff --git a/src/cryptsetup.c b/src/cryptsetup.c
index c007b87c..c103aa9e 100644
--- a/src/cryptsetup.c
+++ b/src/cryptsetup.c
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
 
 #include <string.h>
 #include <errno.h>
+#include <sys/mman.h>
 
 #include <libcryptsetup.h>
 
@@ -181,6 +182,9 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
                 if (argc >= 6 && argv[5][0] && !streq(argv[5], "-"))
                         parse_options(argv[5]);
 
+                /* A delicious drop of snake oil */
+                mlockall(MCL_FUTURE);
+
                 if ((k = crypt_init(&cd, argv[3]))) {
                         log_error("crypt_init() failed: %s", strerror(-k));
                         goto finish;