> -----Original Message----- > From: Jan Beulich <[email protected]> > Sent: 05 July 2019 15:52 > To: Paul Durrant <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected]; Julien Grall <[email protected]>; > Andrew Cooper > <[email protected]>; George Dunlap <[email protected]>; Ian > Jackson > <[email protected]>; Stefano Stabellini <[email protected]>; Konrad > Rzeszutek Wilk > <[email protected]>; Tim (Xen.org) <[email protected]>; Wei Liu <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] xmalloc: add a Kconfig option to poison free pool > memory > > On 05.07.2019 16:48, Paul Durrant wrote: > > This patch adds XMEM_POOL_POISON to the Kconfig DEBUG options. If set, > > free blocks (greater than MIN_BLOCK_SIZE) will be poisoned with 0xAA > > bytes which will then be verified when memory is subsequently allocated. > > This can help in spotting heap corruption, particularly use-after-free. > > > > Signed-off-by: Paul Durrant <[email protected]> > > Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <[email protected]> > > (I'm pondering whether to add the suggested blank lines while > committing.)
Oh, sorry. I forgot about that. Paul _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.xenproject.org/mailman/listinfo/xen-devel
