Re: [PATCH 0/5] mm/kasan: advanced check

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On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 9:05 PM, Wengang <wen.gang.wang@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> On 11/20/2017 12:41 AM, Dmitry Vyukov wrote:
>>
>>
>>>
>>> The reason I didn't submit the vchecker to mainline is that I didn't find
>>> the case that this tool is useful in real life. Most of the system broken
>>> case
>>> can be debugged by other ways. Do you see the real case that this tool is
>>> helpful?
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Yes, this is the main question here.
>> How is it going to be used in real life? How widely?
>>
>
> I think the owner check can be enabled in the cases where KASAN is used. --
> That is that we found there is memory issue, but don't know how it happened.


But KASAN generally pinpoints the corruption as it happens. Why do we
need something else?

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