kmemcheck Aiming For Mainline Inclusion Apr 7, 2008, 16 :30 UTC (0 Talkback[s]) (2966 reads)
"'I skipped the public announcements for versions 5 and 6, but here is 7 :),' noted Vegard Nossum, announcing the latest release of his kmemcheck patch, currently applying against the 2.6.25-rc8 kernel. Vegard noted he is now hoping to get the patch merged into the mainline kernel during the upcoming 2.6.26 merge window. He described the patch:
"'kmemcheck is a patch to the linux kernel that detects use of uninitialized memory. It does this by trapping every read and write to memory that was allocated dynamically (e.g. using kmalloc()). If a memory address is read that has not previously been written to, a message is printed to the kernel log...'"
