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Salt - Slub Allocator Tracer For The Linux Kernel

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Welcome to salt , a tool to reverse in addition to larn meat heap retentiveness management. It tin hold upwards useful to prepare an exploit, to debug your ain meat code, and, to a greater extent than importantly, to play amongst the meat heap allocations in addition to larn its inner workings. This tool helps tracing allocations in addition to the electrical flow state of the SLUB allocator inwards modern linux kernels. It is written every bit a gdb plugin, in addition to it allows y'all to trace in addition to record retentiveness allocations in addition to to filter them yesteryear procedure mention or yesteryear cache. The tool tin also dump the listing of active caches in addition to impress relevant information. This repository also includes a playground loadable meat module that tin trigger allocations in addition to deallocations at will, to serve both every bit a debugging tool in addition to every bit a learning tool to amend empathise how the allocat...