Re: [PATCH v5 07/27] mm/mmap: Create a guard area between VMAs

From: Dave Hansen
Date: Thu Oct 11 2018 - 16:49:14 EST


On 10/11/2018 08:15 AM, Yu-cheng Yu wrote:
> Create a guard area between VMAs to detect memory corruption.

This is a pretty major change that has a bunch of end-user implications.
It's not dependent on any debugging options and can't be turned on/off
by individual apps, at runtime, or even at boot.

Its connection to this series is also tenuous and not spelled out in the
exceptionally terse changelog.