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Plugins for SLOB/SLUB analysis #800
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We introduce the
linux_slobinfo
plugin, which allows to analyze the status of the SLOB memory allocator by providing:The same functionality is also included in the
linux_slabinfo
plugin and automatically invoked if the presence of the SLOB allocator is detected from the memory dump.Additionally, we introduce in the
linux slabinfo
plugin a functionality for the analysis of the status of the SLUB memory allocator which provides summary information about the caches (corresponding to the information provided by theslabinfo
command) and is automatically invoked if the presence of SLUB is detected from the memory dump.NOTE: The SLUB analysis functionality is at the moment only partial and heavily dependent on the specific version of the Linux kernel being used, due to the fact that when attempting to extract Volatility profiles from the system while using more recent versions we obtained profiles missing the definition of some key data structures (we assumed this to be a limitation of the tool used to extract profiles). In particular, we tested on kernel version 3.5.7. For more information, we join a complete
.pdf
report of our work (Report.pdf).