Detecting kernel memory leaks [LWN.net]

Detecting kernel memory leaks

Posted Jun 27, 2009 13:08 UTC (Sat) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: Detecting kernel memory leaks by dlang
Parent article: Detecting kernel memory leaks

'Looking like a pointer' = 'has a value which makes it likely to be a
pointer and not a number with some other meaning'.

There are many tricks you can use: value pointing to a writably-mapped
region of the application's address space (very effective on x86-64, of
course), alignment on platforms where that matters...

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