On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 08:40:25AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Frederic Weisbecker <fweis...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I've been thinking that CONFIG_DEBUG_LIST could help. Unfortunately it's > > good to spot list APIs misuse but, if Linus is right, the problem may be > > that the list belongs to an object that has been freed, and I believe > > that won't detect such a thing. > > Use-after free should be reliably detectable via CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC=y. > > A couple of years ago I wrote a list debugging beast that would catch > use-after-free mishaps (sent it to lkml too IIRC), but it was a bit > complex and I never found the time to nurse it upstream.
Ok, well CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC=y should work for list as for anything, right? Thanks. > > Thanks, > > Ingo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
