Re: [RFC PATCH 09/14] khwasan: add hooks implementation

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On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 5:52 PM, Andrey Ryabinin
<aryabinin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 03/13/2018 08:00 PM, Andrey Konovalov wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 4:05 PM, 'Alexander Potapenko' via kasan-dev
>> <kasan-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Does it make sense to generate the redzone tag from the object tag
>>> (e.g. by addding 1 to it)?
>>
>> Yes, I think so, will do!
>>
>
> Wouldn't be better to have some reserved tag value for invalid memory (redzones/free), so that
> we catch access to such memory with 100% probability?

We could do that. That would reduce the chance to detect a
use-after-free though, since we're using fewer different tag values
for the objects themselves. I don't have a strong opinion about which
one is better though.




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