Re: [PATCH] mm, mempool: kasan: poison mempool elements

David Rientjes <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.file-systems.jfs.general
Message-ID <alpine.DEB.2.10.1504031906170.8970__46709.1935607188$1428113228$gmane$org@chino.kir.corp.google.com>
On Fri, 3 Apr 2015, Andrey Ryabinin wrote:

> Mempools keep allocated objects in reserved for situations
> when ordinary allocation may not be possible to satisfy.
> These objects shouldn't be accessed before they leave
> the pool.
> This patch poison elements when get into the pool
> and unpoison when they leave it. This will let KASan
> to detect use-after-free of mempool's elements.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin <[email protected]>

Tested-by: David Rientjes <[email protected]>

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