[RFC/PATCH RESEND -next 01/21] Add kernel address sanitizer infrastructure.

[Andrey Ryabinin]

On 07/09/14 18:26, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Jul 2014, Andrey Ryabinin wrote:
> 
>> +
>> +Markers of unaccessible bytes could be found in mm/kasan/kasan.h header:
>> +
>> +#define KASAN_FREE_PAGE         0xFF  /* page was freed */
>> +#define KASAN_PAGE_REDZONE      0xFE  /* redzone for kmalloc_large allocations */
>> +#define KASAN_SLAB_REDZONE      0xFD  /* Slab page redzone, does not belong to any slub object */
> 
> We call these zones "PADDING". Redzones are associated with an object.
> Padding is there because bytes are left over, unusable or necessary for
> alignment.
> 
Goop point. I will change the name to make it less confusing.