Tracing memory address access in kernel
Sudip Mukherjee
sudipm.mukherjee at gmail.com
Fri Dec 7 14:49:31 EST 2018
Hi Pritam,
On Tue, Dec 4, 2018 at 10:26 AM Pritam Bankar
<pritambankar1988 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I am facing issue of memory corruption where only one field of
> allocated structure is getting corrupted. I have bio structure and one
> of the page in bio vector is getting set to NULL.
>
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>
> Is there any debugging technique / tool available which will track
> access to specific memory access? I would like to dump stack every
> time bv_page is accessed or modified
In these types of cases I usually use KASAN, or HW Breakpoint.
with HW Breakpoint you can set an alert to monitor any read or write
operation on some memory location. Check
samples/hw_breakpoint/data_breakpoint.c for an example of breakpoints.
KASAN can give you stacktraces when illegal memory access is done.
Hope it helps.
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Regards
Sudip
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