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authorVegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>2008-04-04 00:51:41 +0200
committerVegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>2009-06-13 15:37:30 +0200
commitdfec072ecd35ba6ecad2d51dde325253ac9a2936 (patch)
treeccf682a631ef8edc0675d68d004bc3a80b34b648 /kernel
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/sysctl.c12
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
index ce664f98e3fb..9ef80bba3509 100644
--- a/kernel/sysctl.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
#include <linux/security.h>
#include <linux/ctype.h>
#include <linux/utsname.h>
+#include <linux/kmemcheck.h>
#include <linux/smp_lock.h>
#include <linux/fs.h>
#include <linux/init.h>
@@ -959,6 +960,17 @@ static struct ctl_table kern_table[] = {
.proc_handler = &proc_dointvec,
},
#endif
+#ifdef CONFIG_KMEMCHECK
+ {
+ .ctl_name = CTL_UNNUMBERED,
+ .procname = "kmemcheck",
+ .data = &kmemcheck_enabled,
+ .maxlen = sizeof(int),
+ .mode = 0644,
+ .proc_handler = &proc_dointvec,
+ },
+#endif
+
/*
* NOTE: do not add new entries to this table unless you have read
* Documentation/sysctl/ctl_unnumbered.txt