On 07/09/14 18:26, Christoph Lameter wrote:

On Wed, 9 Jul 2014, Andrey Ryabinin wrote:

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+Markers of unaccessible bytes could be found in mm/kasan/kasan.h header:
+
+#define KASAN_FREE_PAGE         0xFF  /* page was freed */
+#define KASAN_PAGE_REDZONE      0xFE  /* redzone for kmalloc_large allocations */
+#define KASAN_SLAB_REDZONE      0xFD  /* Slab page redzone, does not belong to any slub object */

We call these zones "PADDING". Redzones are associated with an object.
Padding is there because bytes are left over, unusable or necessary for
alignment.

Goop point. I will change the name to make it less confusing.