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From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
To: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Question on debugging use-after-free memory issues.
Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2011 11:12:27 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E08C80B.9070602@candelatech.com> (raw)


I have a case where deleted memory is being passed into an RPC
callback.  I enabled SLUB memory poisoning and verified that the
data pointed to has 0x6b...6b value.

Unfortunately, the rpc code is a giant maze of callbacks and I'm
having a difficult time figuring out where this data could be erroneously
deleted at.

So first question:

Given a pointer to memory, and with SLUB memory debuging on (and/or other
debugging options if applicable), is there a way to get any info about where
the memory was last deleted?

Second:  Any other suggestions for how to go about debugging this?

I hit this problem under load after multiple hours, so just adding printks
in random places may not be feasible...

Thanks,
Ben

-- 
Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Candela Technologies Inc  http://www.candelatech.com


             reply	other threads:[~2011-06-27 18:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-06-27 18:12 Ben Greear [this message]
2011-06-28 22:00 ` Question on debugging use-after-free memory issues Jiri Kosina
2011-06-29  5:41   ` Eric Dumazet
2011-06-29  6:01     ` Ben Greear

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