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Patent No.:

US 8151086 B1

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Date of Patent:
Apr. 03, 2012

Filed:

Oct. 09, 2008
Applicants:

Ben Mcdavitt, Wichita, KS (US);

Jeremy Zeller, Wichita, KS (US);

Dale Harris, Wichita, KS (US);

Inventors:

Ben McDavitt, Wichita, KS (US);

Jeremy Zeller, Wichita, KS (US);

Dale Harris, Wichita, KS (US);

Assignee:

LSI Corporation, Milpitas, CA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/06 (2006.01); G06F 11/07 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

Disclosed is a method of detecting an access to de-allocated memory, comprising: creating a pool of fixed size memory blocks that are a non-zero integer multiple of a page size of a processor; receiving a request for an allocation of a block of memory; recording a set of allocation context information in a fixed size memory block; returning a pointer to an allocation of memory within said fixed size memory block; receiving a request to de-allocate said block of memory; recording a set of de-allocation context information in said fixed size memory block; and, setting an indicator in a page table entry associated with said fixed size memory block to a first value that indicates access to said fixed size memory block is not allowed.


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