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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: manfred@colorfullife.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] slab: redzone double-free detection
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 15:39:08 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060427153908.480a89a7.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1146160076.11272.5.camel@localhost>

Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> wrote:
>
> From: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
> 
> This patch adds double-free detection to redzone verification when freeing
> an object. As explained by Manfred, when we are freeing an object, both
> redzones should be RED_ACTIVE. However, if both are RED_INACTIVE, we are
> trying to free an object that was already free'd.
> 
> ...
>
>  slab.c |   32 +++++++++++++++++++++++---------

Nice, thanks.


      parent reply	other threads:[~2006-04-27 22:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-04-27 17:47 [PATCH] slab: redzone double-free detection Pekka Enberg
2006-04-27 18:46 ` Manfred Spraul
2006-04-27 22:39 ` Andrew Morton [this message]

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