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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/mm/kmemcheck/error.c
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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1#include <linux/interrupt.h>
2#include <linux/kdebug.h>
3#include <linux/kmemcheck.h>
4#include <linux/kernel.h>
5#include <linux/types.h>
6#include <linux/ptrace.h>
7#include <linux/stacktrace.h>
8#include <linux/string.h>
9
10#include "error.h"
11#include "shadow.h"
12
13enum kmemcheck_error_type {
14 KMEMCHECK_ERROR_INVALID_ACCESS,
15 KMEMCHECK_ERROR_BUG,
16};
17
18#define SHADOW_COPY_SIZE (1 << CONFIG_KMEMCHECK_SHADOW_COPY_SHIFT)
19
20struct kmemcheck_error {
21 enum kmemcheck_error_type type;
22
23 union {
24 /* KMEMCHECK_ERROR_INVALID_ACCESS */
25 struct {
26 /* Kind of access that caused the error */
27 enum kmemcheck_shadow state;
28 /* Address and size of the erroneous read */
29 unsigned long address;
30 unsigned int size;
31 };
32 };
33
34 struct pt_regs regs;
35 struct stack_trace trace;
36 unsigned long trace_entries[32];
37
38 /* We compress it to a char. */
39 unsigned char shadow_copy[SHADOW_COPY_SIZE];
40 unsigned char memory_copy[SHADOW_COPY_SIZE];
41};
42
43/*
44 * Create a ring queue of errors to output. We can't call printk() directly
45 * from the kmemcheck traps, since this may call the console drivers and
46 * result in a recursive fault.
47 */
48static struct kmemcheck_error error_fifo[CONFIG_KMEMCHECK_QUEUE_SIZE];
49static unsigned int error_count;
50static unsigned int error_rd;
51static unsigned int error_wr;
52static unsigned int error_missed_count;
53
54static struct kmemcheck_error *error_next_wr(void)
55{
56 struct kmemcheck_error *e;
57
58 if (error_count == ARRAY_SIZE(error_fifo)) {
59 ++error_missed_count;
60 return NULL;
61 }
62
63 e = &error_fifo[error_wr];
64 if (++error_wr == ARRAY_SIZE(error_fifo))
65 error_wr = 0;
66 ++error_count;
67 return e;
68}
69
70static struct kmemcheck_error *error_next_rd(void)
71{
72 struct kmemcheck_error *e;
73
74 if (error_count == 0)
75 return NULL;
76
77 e = &error_fifo[error_rd];
78 if (++error_rd == ARRAY_SIZE(error_fifo))
79 error_rd = 0;
80 --error_count;
81 return e;
82}
83
84static void do_wakeup(unsigned long);
85static DECLARE_TASKLET(kmemcheck_tasklet, &do_wakeup, 0);
86
87/*
88 * Save the context of an error report.
89 */
90void kmemcheck_error_save(enum kmemcheck_shadow state,
91 unsigned long address, unsigned int size, struct pt_regs *regs)
92{
93 static unsigned long prev_ip;
94
95 struct kmemcheck_error *e;
96 void *shadow_copy;
97 void *memory_copy;
98
99 /* Don't report several adjacent errors from the same EIP. */
100 if (regs->ip == prev_ip)
101 return;
102 prev_ip = regs->ip;
103
104 e = error_next_wr();
105 if (!e)
106 return;
107
108 e->type = KMEMCHECK_ERROR_INVALID_ACCESS;
109
110 e->state = state;
111 e->address = address;
112 e->size = size;
113
114 /* Save regs */
115 memcpy(&e->regs, regs, sizeof(*regs));
116
117 /* Save stack trace */
118 e->trace.nr_entries = 0;
119 e->trace.entries = e->trace_entries;
120 e->trace.max_entries = ARRAY_SIZE(e->trace_entries);
121 e->trace.skip = 0;
122 save_stack_trace_bp(&e->trace, regs->bp);
123
124 /* Round address down to nearest 16 bytes */
125 shadow_copy = kmemcheck_shadow_lookup(address
126 & ~(SHADOW_COPY_SIZE - 1));
127 BUG_ON(!shadow_copy);
128
129 memcpy(e->shadow_copy, shadow_copy, SHADOW_COPY_SIZE);
130
131 kmemcheck_show_addr(address);
132 memory_copy = (void *) (address & ~(SHADOW_COPY_SIZE - 1));
133 memcpy(e->memory_copy, memory_copy, SHADOW_COPY_SIZE);
134 kmemcheck_hide_addr(address);
135
136 tasklet_hi_schedule_first(&kmemcheck_tasklet);
137}
138
139/*
140 * Save the context of a kmemcheck bug.
141 */
142void kmemcheck_error_save_bug(struct pt_regs *regs)
143{
144 struct kmemcheck_error *e;
145
146 e = error_next_wr();
147 if (!e)
148 return;
149
150 e->type = KMEMCHECK_ERROR_BUG;
151
152 memcpy(&e->regs, regs, sizeof(*regs));
153
154 e->trace.nr_entries = 0;
155 e->trace.entries = e->trace_entries;
156 e->trace.max_entries = ARRAY_SIZE(e->trace_entries);
157 e->trace.skip = 1;
158 save_stack_trace(&e->trace);
159
160 tasklet_hi_schedule_first(&kmemcheck_tasklet);
161}
162
163void kmemcheck_error_recall(void)
164{
165 static const char *desc[] = {
166 [KMEMCHECK_SHADOW_UNALLOCATED] = "unallocated",
167 [KMEMCHECK_SHADOW_UNINITIALIZED] = "uninitialized",
168 [KMEMCHECK_SHADOW_INITIALIZED] = "initialized",
169 [KMEMCHECK_SHADOW_FREED] = "freed",
170 };
171
172 static const char short_desc[] = {
173 [KMEMCHECK_SHADOW_UNALLOCATED] = 'a',
174 [KMEMCHECK_SHADOW_UNINITIALIZED] = 'u',
175 [KMEMCHECK_SHADOW_INITIALIZED] = 'i',
176 [KMEMCHECK_SHADOW_FREED] = 'f',
177 };
178
179 struct kmemcheck_error *e;
180 unsigned int i;
181
182 e = error_next_rd();
183 if (!e)
184 return;
185
186 switch (e->type) {
187 case KMEMCHECK_ERROR_INVALID_ACCESS:
188 printk(KERN_ERR "WARNING: kmemcheck: Caught %d-bit read "
189 "from %s memory (%p)\n",
190 8 * e->size, e->state < ARRAY_SIZE(desc) ?
191 desc[e->state] : "(invalid shadow state)",
192 (void *) e->address);
193
194 printk(KERN_INFO);
195 for (i = 0; i < SHADOW_COPY_SIZE; ++i)
196 printk("%02x", e->memory_copy[i]);
197 printk("\n");
198
199 printk(KERN_INFO);
200 for (i = 0; i < SHADOW_COPY_SIZE; ++i) {
201 if (e->shadow_copy[i] < ARRAY_SIZE(short_desc))
202 printk(" %c", short_desc[e->shadow_copy[i]]);
203 else
204 printk(" ?");
205 }
206 printk("\n");
207 printk(KERN_INFO "%*c\n", 2 + 2
208 * (int) (e->address & (SHADOW_COPY_SIZE - 1)), '^');
209 break;
210 case KMEMCHECK_ERROR_BUG:
211 printk(KERN_EMERG "ERROR: kmemcheck: Fatal error\n");
212 break;
213 }
214
215 __show_regs(&e->regs, 1);
216 print_stack_trace(&e->trace, 0);
217}
218
219static void do_wakeup(unsigned long data)
220{
221 while (error_count > 0)
222 kmemcheck_error_recall();
223
224 if (error_missed_count > 0) {
225 printk(KERN_WARNING "kmemcheck: Lost %d error reports because "
226 "the queue was too small\n", error_missed_count);
227 error_missed_count = 0;
228 }
229}