+some more people On Thu, Dec 25, 2014 at 3:01 PM, Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello > > I'm working on the kernel address sanitizer (KASan) - > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.mm/120041 > KASan is runtime memory debugger designed to find use-after-free and > out-of-bounds accesses. > > Seems we've come to agreement that KASan is useful and deserves to be > in mainline, yet the feedback on patches is poor. > It seems like they are stalled, so I would like to discuss the future > of it. I hope this will help in pushing it forward. > > Besides we have ideas for further improvements, like: > > * Detecting reads of uninitialized memory. > * Quarantine - delaying reallocation of freed memory to increase > chance of catching use after free bugs. > In combination with DEBUG_PAGEALLOC or slab > poisoning it's useful even without KASan. > * and some more... > > Perhaps it's worth to discuss them as well. I'll be able to come up > with some prototype until summit if needed. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>