Re: [patch v2 4/4] mm, mempool: poison elements backed by page allocator

[Andrew Morton]

On Tue, 24 Mar 2015 16:10:01 -0700 (PDT) David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Elements backed by the slab allocator are poisoned when added to a
> mempool's reserved pool.
> 
> It is also possible to poison elements backed by the page allocator
> because the mempool layer knows the allocation order.
> 
> This patch extends mempool element poisoning to include memory backed by
> the page allocator.
> 
> This is only effective for configs with CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB or
> CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON.
> 

Maybe mempools should get KASAN treatment (as well as this)?
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