panic: Memory modified after free

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Tue Jan 31 14:47:36 PST 2006


On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 11:11:20PM +0100, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 10:50:21PM +0100, Christian Brueffer wrote:
> +> On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 01:22:09PM -0800, Steve Kargl wrote:
> +> > The system is a dual proc Tyan K8S Pro with 12 GB of memory.
> +> > The kernel is UP.  This was recorded by hand. I have the crash dump.
> +> > 
> +> > Memory modified after free 0xffffff02505e0c00(504) val=deadc0dd @
> +> > 0xffffff02505e0cd0
> +> > 
> +> 
> +> For the record, I got this as well today.  Here it was on my notebook
> +> at system shutdown.
> 
> Cool, so you have a chance to try memguard(9) and verify my patch to
> manual page:)
> 
> --- memguard.9  30 Dec 2005 12:28:19 -0000	1.2
> +++ memguard.9  31 Jan 2006 22:06:04 -0000
> @@ -56,6 +56,9 @@ vm.memguard.desc=<memory_type>
>  .Ed
>  .Pp
>  Where memory_type is a short description of memory type to monitor.
> +The short description of memory type is the second argument to
> +.Xr MALLOC_DECLARE 9 ,
> +so one has to find it in the kernel source.

ITYM MALLOC_DEFINE?

Kris
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