Re: [PATCH v6 00/11] Kernel address sanitizer - runtime memory debugger.

From: Andrey Ryabinin
Date: Fri Nov 21 2014 - 11:07:05 EST


On 11/21/2014 02:14 AM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Nov 2014, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 20 Nov 2014 20:32:30 +0400 Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> Let me provide some background first.
>>
>> Well that was useful. Andrey, please slurp Dmitry's info into the 0/n
>> changelog?
>
> And into Documentation/UBSan or whatever the favourite place is. 0/n
> lengthy explanations have a tendecy to be hard to retrieve.
>

I would rather put this into 1/n patch changelog.
IMO Documentation should only describe how to use this tool and how it works.

And UBSan != KASan. UBSan for detecting undefined behavior,
KASan for out of bounds and use after frees.

> Thanks,
>
> tglx
>
>
>

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