Re: [RFC] kmemcheck: trap uses of uninitialized memory (v2)

Vegard Nossum <[email protected]> writes:
> 
> - We properly flush TLB entries that change. This used to not be the case, and so we

For low values of "properly" @)

> +	pte = lookup_address(addr);
> +	change_page_attr(page, 1, __pgprot(pte->pte_low | _PAGE_VISIBLE));
> +	__flush_tlb_one(addr);

That's not enough, you need to flush all CPUs.

Also when you don't call global_flush_tlb() eventually because c_p_a() will leak flush
objects over time.

-Andi

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