Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] mm, kasan: improve double-free detection

From: Andrey Ryabinin
Date: Mon May 09 2016 - 09:01:31 EST




On 05/09/2016 02:35 PM, Luruo, Kuthonuzo wrote:
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> This patch with atomic bit op is similar in spirit to v1 except that it increases metadata size.
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I don't think that this is a big deal. That will slightly increase size of objects <= (128 - 32) bytes.
And if someone think otherwise, we can completely remove 'alloc_size'
(we use it only to print size in report - not very useful).