cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_malloc.c src/share/man/man9
Makefile redzone.9 src/sys/vm redzone.c redzone.h
src/sys/conf NOTES files options
Kris Kennaway
kris at obsecurity.org
Tue Jan 31 10:42:24 PST 2006
On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 04:18:09PM +0100, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 11:09:22AM +0000, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:
> +> pjd 2006-01-31 11:09:22 UTC
> +>
> +> FreeBSD src repository
> +>
> +> Modified files:
> +> sys/kern kern_malloc.c
> +> share/man/man9 Makefile
> +> sys/conf NOTES files options
> +> Added files:
> +> share/man/man9 redzone.9
> +> sys/vm redzone.c redzone.h
> +> Log:
> +> Add buffer corruption protection (RedZone) for kernel's malloc(9).
> +> It detects both: buffer underflows and buffer overflows bugs at runtime
> +> (on free(9) and realloc(9)) and prints backtraces from where memory was
> +> allocated and from where it was freed.
> +>
> +> Tested by: kris
>
> As I noted above, Kris did some tests with redzone(9) enabled and haven't
> found any issues.
>
> We may want to turn it on in HEAD by default for some time, so more code
> can be tested.
>
> What do you think? Kris, is there visible overhead with redzone(9)?
I haven't really tested that, but it doesn't seem too bad. I think it
would be well worth leaving it on for a while to see what turns up
though.
Kris
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