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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Cc: rjw@sisk.pl, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@zip.com.au,
	agruen@suse.de
Subject: Re: Fix random crashes in x86-64 swsusp
Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 15:25:33 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041006152533.514fb51b.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041006220600.GB25059@elf.ucw.cz>

Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> wrote:
>
> Maybe we should memset freed memory to zero so such bugs are
> prevented?

It would make sense to poison these pages, yes.  Zero would not be a good
choice of value, actually - something like 0xbb would cause nice oopses if
someone used a pointer which was backed by __init memory.

CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC will pick up this sort of bug, but that's i386-only.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-10-06 22:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-10-05 21:14 2.6.9-rc3[+recent swsusp patches]: swsusp kernel-preemption-unfriendly? Rafael J. Wysocki
2004-10-05 21:27 ` Pavel Machek
2004-10-06  8:55   ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2004-10-06  8:54     ` Pavel Machek
2004-10-06 10:06       ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2004-10-06 10:12         ` Pavel Machek
2004-10-06 21:46           ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2004-10-06 22:06             ` Fix random crashes in x86-64 swsusp Pavel Machek
2004-10-06 22:13               ` [kernel] " Andi Kleen
2004-10-06 22:25               ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2004-10-06 22:24                 ` Pavel Machek
2004-10-08 20:59               ` swsusp: 8-order memory allocations problem (was: Re: Fix random crashes in x86-64 swsusp) Rafael J. Wysocki
2004-10-10 13:48                 ` Pavel Machek
2004-10-10 18:28                   ` Andrew Morton
2004-10-13 17:24                   ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2004-10-14 15:37                     ` swsusp: 8-order memory allocations problem (update) Rafael J. Wysocki

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