kmemcheck: add the kmemcheck core

General description: kmemcheck is a patch to the linux kernel that
detects use of uninitialized memory. It does this by trapping every
read and write to memory that was allocated dynamically (e.g. using
kmalloc()). If a memory address is read that has not previously been
written to, a message is printed to the kernel log.

Thanks to Andi Kleen for the set_memory_4k() solution.

Andrew Morton suggested documenting the shadow member of struct page.

Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegardno@ifi.uio.no>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>

[export kmemcheck_mark_initialized]
[build fix for setup_max_cpus]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

[rebased for mainline inclusion]
Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegardno@ifi.uio.no>
This commit is contained in:
Vegard Nossum
2009-06-13 15:37:30 +02:00
parent e594c8de3b
commit dfec072ecd
19 changed files with 1304 additions and 2 deletions
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@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
#ifndef LINUX_KMEMCHECK_H
#define LINUX_KMEMCHECK_H
#include <linux/mm_types.h>
#include <linux/types.h>
#ifdef CONFIG_KMEMCHECK
extern int kmemcheck_enabled;
int kmemcheck_show_addr(unsigned long address);
int kmemcheck_hide_addr(unsigned long address);
#else
#define kmemcheck_enabled 0
#endif /* CONFIG_KMEMCHECK */
#endif /* LINUX_KMEMCHECK_H */
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@@ -98,6 +98,14 @@ struct page {
#ifdef CONFIG_WANT_PAGE_DEBUG_FLAGS
unsigned long debug_flags; /* Use atomic bitops on this */
#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_KMEMCHECK
/*
* kmemcheck wants to track the status of each byte in a page; this
* is a pointer to such a status block. NULL if not tracked.
*/
void *shadow;
#endif
};
/*