> I skipped the public announcements for versions 5 and 6, but here is 7 :)
>
> General description: 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.
>
> Changes since v4 (rough list):
> - SLUB parts were broken-out into its own file to avoid cluttering the main
> SLUB code.
> - A rather lot of cleanups, including removing #ifdefs from arch code.
> - Some preparation in anticipation of an x86_64 port.
> - Make reporting safer by using a periodic timer to inspect the error queue.
> - Fix hang due to page flags changing too early on free().
> - Fix hang due to kprobes incompatibility.
> - Allow CONFIG_SMP, but limit number of CPUs to 1 at run-time.
> - Add kmemcheck=0|1 boot option.
> - Add /proc/sys/kernel/kmemcheck for run-time enabling/disabling.
>
>
> These patches apply to Linus's v2.6.25-rc8. The latest patchset can also be
> found here:
http://folk.uio.no/vegardno/linux/kmemcheck/
