linux-kernel - Re: Redzone overwritten with CONFIG

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Date:	Tue, 27 May 2008 17:55:24 +0300
From:	"Pekka Enberg" <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
To:	"Eric Sesterhenn" <snakebyte@....de>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, vegardno@....uio.no
Subject: Re: Redzone overwritten with CONFIG_SECURITY

Hi Eric,

On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 5:00 PM, Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@....de> wrote:
> i tested a kmemcheck kernel as an attempt to debug
> this further... seems CONFIG_SECURITY is unrelated to
> this, but slub debugging only catches the
> overwrite it if i enable CONFIG_SECURITY.

Unfortunately kmemcheck does not catch writes to red-zone so it won't
help you debug the original issue.

                        Pekka
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