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Debugging where memory gets free'd with help from overwriting the memory before it is free'd with some structures (repeatedly). The struct mem_invalid starts with a magic value (0xdeadc0de), followed by a pointer to the xlator, the mem-type. the size of the GF_?ALLOC() requested area and the baseaddr pointer to what GF_?ALLOC() returned. With these details, and the 'struct mem_header' that is placed when calling GF_?ALLOC(), it is possible to identify overruns and possible use-after-free. A memory dump (core) or running with a debugger is needed to read the surrounding memory of corrupt structures. This additional memory invalidation/poisoning needs to be enabled by passing --enable-debug to ./configure. Change-Id: I9f5f37dc4b5b59142adefc90897d32e89be67b82 Signed-off-by: Niels de Vos <ndevos@redhat.com> Reviewed-on: http://review.gluster.org/10019 Reviewed-by: Venky Shankar <vshankar@redhat.com> Tested-by: Gluster Build System <jenkins@build.gluster.com> Reviewed-by: Emmanuel Dreyfus <manu@netbsd.org> Reviewed-by: Kaleb KEITHLEY <kkeithle@redhat.com>
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