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From:   Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Date:   Fri, 30 Oct 2020 11:56:53 +0100
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 0/9] KFENCE: A low-overhead sampling-based memory
 safety error detector
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On Fri, 30 Oct 2020 at 03:49, Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 2:16 PM Marco Elver <elver@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.

Thanks for your comments. We'll address all of them for v7.

> Now that the magic "embed the memory pool in the BSS section" stuff is
> gone, this series looks fairly straightforward.

Good to hear. :-)

Thanks,
-- Marco