[PATCH v6 0/9] KFENCE: A low-overhead sampling-based memory safety error detector
Jann Horn
jannh at google.com
Thu Oct 29 22:49:04 EDT 2020
On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 2:16 PM Marco Elver <elver at google.com> wrote:
> This adds the Kernel Electric-Fence (KFENCE) infrastructure. KFENCE is a
> low-overhead sampling-based memory safety error detector of heap
> use-after-free, invalid-free, and out-of-bounds access errors. This
> series enables KFENCE for the x86 and arm64 architectures, and adds
> KFENCE hooks to the SLAB and SLUB allocators.
I think this is getting close to a good state, just a couple minor issues left.
Now that the magic "embed the memory pool in the BSS section" stuff is
gone, this series looks fairly straightforward.
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