* Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]> wrote:
> I've been thinking that CONFIG_DEBUG_LIST could help. Unfortunately it's
> good to spot list APIs misuse but, if Linus is right, the problem may be
> that the list belongs to an object that has been freed, and I believe
> that won't detect such a thing.
Use-after free should be reliably detectable via CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC=y.
A couple of years ago I wrote a list debugging beast that would catch
use-after-free mishaps (sent it to lkml too IIRC), but it was a bit
complex and I never found the time to nurse it upstream.
Thanks,
Ingo
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