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* kmemcheck: Test the full object in kmemcheck_is_obj_initialized()Catalin Marinas2010-02-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This is a fix for bug #14845 (bugzilla.kernel.org). The update_checksum() function in mm/kmemleak.c calls kmemcheck_is_obj_initialised() before scanning an object. When KMEMCHECK_PARTIAL_OK is enabled, this function returns true. However, the crc32_le() reads smaller intervals (32-bit) for which kmemleak_is_obj_initialised() may be false leading to a kmemcheck warning. Note that kmemcheck_is_obj_initialized() is currently only used by kmemleak before scanning a memory location. Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Christian Casteyde <casteyde.christian@free.fr> Cc: Vegard Nossum <vegardno@ifi.uio.no> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
* Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2009-09-22
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vegard/kmemcheck * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vegard/kmemcheck: kmemcheck: add missing braces to do-while in kmemcheck_annotate_bitfield kmemcheck: update documentation kmemcheck: depend on HAVE_ARCH_KMEMCHECK kmemcheck: remove useless check kmemcheck: remove duplicated #include
| * kmemcheck: remove useless checkVegard Nossum2009-07-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This check is a left-over from ancient times. We now have the equivalent check much earlier in both the page fault handler and the debug trap handler (the calls to kmemcheck_active()). Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
* | kmemleak: Don't scan uninitialized memory when kmemcheck is enabledPekka Enberg2009-09-04
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Ingo Molnar reported the following kmemcheck warning when running both kmemleak and kmemcheck enabled: PM: Adding info for No Bus:vcsa7 WARNING: kmemcheck: Caught 32-bit read from uninitialized memory (f6f6e1a4) d873f9f600000000c42ae4c1005c87f70000000070665f666978656400000000 i i i i u u u u i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i u u u ^ Pid: 3091, comm: kmemleak Not tainted (2.6.31-rc7-tip #1303) P4DC6 EIP: 0060:[<c110301f>] EFLAGS: 00010006 CPU: 0 EIP is at scan_block+0x3f/0xe0 EAX: f40bd700 EBX: f40bd780 ECX: f16b46c0 EDX: 00000001 ESI: f6f6e1a4 EDI: 00000000 EBP: f10f3f4c ESP: c2605fcc DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 00e0 SS: 0068 CR0: 8005003b CR2: e89a4844 CR3: 30ff1000 CR4: 000006f0 DR0: 00000000 DR1: 00000000 DR2: 00000000 DR3: 00000000 DR6: ffff4ff0 DR7: 00000400 [<c110313c>] scan_object+0x7c/0xf0 [<c1103389>] kmemleak_scan+0x1d9/0x400 [<c1103a3c>] kmemleak_scan_thread+0x4c/0xb0 [<c10819d4>] kthread+0x74/0x80 [<c10257db>] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x3c [<ffffffff>] 0xffffffff kmemleak: 515 new suspected memory leaks (see /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak) kmemleak: 42 new suspected memory leaks (see /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak) The problem here is that kmemleak will scan partially initialized objects that makes kmemcheck complain. Fix that up by skipping uninitialized memory regions when kmemcheck is enabled. Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
* kmemcheck: add opcode self-testing at bootVegard Nossum2009-06-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | We've had some troubles in the past with weird instructions. This patch adds a self-test framework which can be used to verify that a certain set of opcodes are decoded correctly. Of course, the opcodes which are not tested can still give the wrong results. In short, this is just a safeguard to catch unintentional changes in the opcode decoder. It does not mean that errors can't still occur! [rebased for mainline inclusion] Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
* kmemcheck: use kmemcheck_pte_lookup() instead of open-coding itPekka Enberg2009-06-15
| | | | | | | | Lets use kmemcheck_pte_lookup() in kmemcheck_fault() instead of open-coding it there. Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
* kmemcheck: remove multiple ifdef'd definitions of the same global variablePekka Enberg2009-06-15
| | | | | | | | Multiple ifdef'd definitions of the same global variable is ugly and error-prone. Fix that up. Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
* kmemcheck: make initialization message less confusingPekka Enberg2009-06-15
| | | | | | | | The "Bugs, beware!" printout during is cute but confuses users that something bad happened so change the text to the more boring "Initialized" message. Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
* kmemcheck: add the kmemcheck coreVegard Nossum2009-06-13
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>