Re: [PATCH 00/18] introduce a new tool, valid access checker

[Joonsoo Kim]

On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 10:27:00AM +0100, Dmitry Vyukov wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 8:48 AM,  <js1304@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > From: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@xxxxxxx>
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > This patchset introduces a new tool, valid access checker.
> >
> > Vchecker is a dynamic memory error detector. It provides a new debug feature
> > that can find out an un-intended access to valid area. Valid area here means
> > the memory which is allocated and allowed to be accessed by memory owner and
> > un-intended access means the read/write that is initiated by non-owner.
> > Usual problem of this class is memory overwritten.
> >
> > Most of debug feature focused on finding out un-intended access to
> > in-valid area, for example, out-of-bound access and use-after-free, and,
> > there are many good tools for it. But, as far as I know, there is no good tool
> > to find out un-intended access to valid area. This kind of problem is really
> > hard to solve so this tool would be very useful.
> >
> > This tool doesn't automatically catch a problem. Manual runtime configuration
> > to specify the target object is required.
> >
> > Note that there was a similar attempt for the debugging overwritten problem
> > however it requires manual code modifying and recompile.
> >
> > http://lkml.kernel.org/r/<20171117223043.7277-1-wen.gang.wang@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > To get more information about vchecker, please see a documention at
> > the last patch.
> >
> > Patchset can also be available at
> >
> > https://github.com/JoonsooKim/linux/tree/vchecker-master-v1.0-next-20171122
> >
> > Enjoy it.
> 
> 
> Hi Joonsoo,
> 
> I skimmed through the code and this looks fine from KASAN point of
> view (minimal code changes and no perf impact).
> I don't feel like I can judge if this should go in or not. I will not
> use this, we use KASAN for large-scale testing, but vchecker is in a
> different bucket, it is meant for developers debugging hard bugs.
> Wengang come up with a very similar change, and Andi said that this
> looks useful.

Thanks for comment.

Hello, other reviewers!
Please let me know more opinions about this patchset.

> 
> If the decision is that this goes in, please let me take a closer look
> before this is merged.

I will let you know when the decision is made.

Thanks.