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authorVegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>2008-04-03 18:51:41 -0400
committerVegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>2009-06-13 09:37:30 -0400
commitdfec072ecd35ba6ecad2d51dde325253ac9a2936 (patch)
treeccf682a631ef8edc0675d68d004bc3a80b34b648 /arch/x86/include/asm/kmemcheck.h
parente594c8de3bd4e7732ed3340fb01e18ec94b12df2 (diff)
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>
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diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/kmemcheck.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/kmemcheck.h
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1#ifndef ASM_X86_KMEMCHECK_H
2#define ASM_X86_KMEMCHECK_H
3
4#include <linux/types.h>
5#include <asm/ptrace.h>
6
7#ifdef CONFIG_KMEMCHECK
8bool kmemcheck_active(struct pt_regs *regs);
9
10void kmemcheck_show(struct pt_regs *regs);
11void kmemcheck_hide(struct pt_regs *regs);
12
13bool kmemcheck_fault(struct pt_regs *regs,
14 unsigned long address, unsigned long error_code);
15bool kmemcheck_trap(struct pt_regs *regs);
16#else
17static inline bool kmemcheck_active(struct pt_regs *regs)
18{
19 return false;
20}
21
22static inline void kmemcheck_show(struct pt_regs *regs)
23{
24}
25
26static inline void kmemcheck_hide(struct pt_regs *regs)
27{
28}
29
30static inline bool kmemcheck_fault(struct pt_regs *regs,
31 unsigned long address, unsigned long error_code)
32{
33 return false;
34}
35
36static inline bool kmemcheck_trap(struct pt_regs *regs)
37{
38 return false;
39}
40#endif /* CONFIG_KMEMCHECK */
41
42#endif