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From: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
To: Akinobu Mita <mita@miraclelinux.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org,
	Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>,
	Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 4/4] change slab poison pattern
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 12:20:03 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1145870404.21484.2.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060424083342.743876000@localhost.localdomain>

Hi,

On Mon, 2006-04-24 at 16:33 +0800, Akinobu Mita wrote:
> kref debugging cannot detect kref_put() with unreferenced object,
> when the structure including kref is allocated by slab
> and slab debugging config is enabled.
> 
> Because use-after-free poisoning make kref counter signed value.
> So this patch prevents it by changing poisoning pattern.

Then why not check against POISON_INUSE when CONFIG_SLAB_DEBUG in the
kref debugging code? I would prefer you didn't change the slab constants
(they're well known by everyone now) but if you must, at least stick a
big fat comment there.

			Pekka


  reply	other threads:[~2006-04-24  9:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-04-24  8:33 [patch 0/4] kref debugging Akinobu Mita
2006-04-24  8:33 ` [patch 1/4] kref: warn kref_put() with unreferenced kref Akinobu Mita
2006-04-25  3:51   ` Greg KH
2006-04-25  4:19     ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2006-04-25  5:11       ` Greg KH
2006-04-25  4:34     ` Akinobu Mita
2006-04-25  5:09       ` Greg KH
2006-04-25  6:27         ` Akinobu Mita
2006-04-27 11:45   ` Rogier Wolff
2006-04-24  8:33 ` [patch 2/4] kref debugging config option Akinobu Mita
2006-04-24 21:38   ` Andrew Morton
2006-04-25  4:53     ` Akinobu Mita
2006-04-25  5:08       ` Greg KH
2006-04-25  3:52   ` Greg KH
2006-04-24  8:33 ` [patch 3/4] dynamic configurable kref debugging Akinobu Mita
2006-04-25  3:55   ` Greg KH
2006-04-24  8:33 ` [patch 4/4] change slab poison pattern Akinobu Mita
2006-04-24  9:20   ` Pekka Enberg [this message]
2006-04-24 10:23     ` Akinobu Mita
2006-04-24 15:33       ` Matt Mackall
2006-04-25  3:49 ` [patch 0/4] kref debugging Greg KH

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