lists.openwall.net   lists  /  announce  owl-users  owl-dev  john-users  john-dev  passwdqc-users  yescrypt  popa3d-users  /  oss-security  kernel-hardening  musl  sabotage  tlsify  passwords  /  crypt-dev  xvendor  /  Bugtraq  Full-Disclosure  linux-kernel  linux-netdev  linux-ext4  linux-hardening  linux-cve-announce  PHC 
Open Source and information security mailing list archives
 
Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.
[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]
Date:	Mon, 29 Jun 2009 11:38:00 +0100
From:	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
To:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
Cc:	Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...l.by>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: kmemleak hexdump proposal

On Mon, 2009-06-29 at 13:19 +0300, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-06-29 at 13:19 +0300, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> > Well, it's not easy to come up with something strong. 
> > I agree, that stack gives you almost all you need.
> > 
> > HEX dump can give you a _tip_ in case you're not sure. 
> 
> Don't get me wrong, I'm not against it in any way. If Catalin is
> interested in merging this kind of functionality, go for it! You might
> want to consider unconditionally enabling the hexdump. If the
> information is valuable, we should print it all the time.

Though I prefer to do as much as possible in user space, I think this
feature would be useful.

Anyway, I may not include it before the next merging window (when is
actually the best time for new features). Currently, my main focus is on
reducing the false positives.

-- 
Catalin

--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Powered by blists - more mailing lists