[Xen-devel] [PATCH]: xl: poison data objects in auto-generated destructors

[Gianni Tedesco <gianni.tedesco@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Increase the probability of blowing up badly up during any
use-after-destroy scenarios.

Signed-off-by: Gianni Tedesco <gianni.tedesco@xxxxxxxxxx>

diff -r f68726cdf357 tools/libxl/gentypes.py
--- a/tools/libxl/gentypes.py   Thu Aug 19 18:24:12 2010 +0100
+++ b/tools/libxl/gentypes.py   Fri Aug 20 15:51:35 2010 +0100
@@ -145,15 +145,19 @@ if __name__ == '__main__':
 
 #include <stdint.h>
 #include <stdlib.h>
+#include <string.h>
 
 #include "libxl.h"
 
+#define LIBXL_DTOR_POISON 0xa5
+
 """ % " ".join(sys.argv))
 
     for ty in [t for t in types if t.destructor_fn is not None and 
t.autogenerate_destructor]:
         f.write("void %s(%s *p)\n" % (ty.destructor_fn, ty.typename))
         f.write("{\n")
         f.write(libxl_C_type_destroy(ty, "p", True))
+        f.write("\tmemset(p, LIBXL_DTOR_POISON, sizeof(*p));\n")
         f.write("}\n")
         f.write("\n")
     f.close()



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