linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/5] mm: poison critical mm/ structs

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Date:	Thu, 09 Oct 2014 15:11:39 -0400
From:	Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@...cle.com>
To:	Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>
CC:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org, mgorman@...e.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] mm: poison critical mm/ structs

On 10/02/2014 05:23 AM, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> I'm glad to hear they've confirmed some vm_area_struct corruption:
> any ideas on where that's coming from?

Hugh,

I think that what we're seeing isn't a corruption of vm_area_struct
per-se, but something weirder.

I've poisoned every spot where vm_area_struct is allocated, and yet
there seems to be nothing that's hitting that field before we end
up using a "zeroed out" vm_area_struct.

The results are the same both with and without kasan, there seems
to be no corruption happening anywhere, but we somehow end up with
an empty vm_area_struct.

It also somewhat makes sense considering that we're seeing no slub
corruption either. Either something is zeroing out *exactly*
vm_area_struct, or it's not really corruption...

Thanks,
Sasha
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