how to detect kernel memory overflow ?

[Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu]

On Thu, 29 May 2014 11:13:09 +0800, RS said:
> How to detect the kernel memory overflow errors?

With a sufficiently recent gcc, you can build the kernel
with CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR=y which will put a canary
value on the stack and check it for corruption.
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