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From: greg@kroah.com (Greg KH)
Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 08:20:14 -0700
Subject: Module to sanitize freed memory ?
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On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 05:12:19PM +0200, Chris Laberti wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Is there a kernel module that sanitizes (overwrites) freed memory ? Or
> maybe does sysctl offer something like this ?

What's wrong with the kernel option that does this for you
(CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB)?  No need to write a separate kernel module at all.

greg k-h