From dfec072ecd35ba6ecad2d51dde325253ac9a2936 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vegard Nossum Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2008 00:51:41 +0200 Subject: 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 Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg [export kmemcheck_mark_initialized] [build fix for setup_max_cpus] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar [rebased for mainline inclusion] Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum --- arch/x86/mm/kmemcheck/pte.c | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+) create mode 100644 arch/x86/mm/kmemcheck/pte.c (limited to 'arch/x86/mm/kmemcheck/pte.c') diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/kmemcheck/pte.c b/arch/x86/mm/kmemcheck/pte.c new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..4ead26eeaf96 --- /dev/null +++ b/arch/x86/mm/kmemcheck/pte.c @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ +#include + +#include + +#include "pte.h" + +pte_t *kmemcheck_pte_lookup(unsigned long address) +{ + pte_t *pte; + unsigned int level; + + pte = lookup_address(address, &level); + if (!pte) + return NULL; + if (level != PG_LEVEL_4K) + return NULL; + if (!pte_hidden(*pte)) + return NULL; + + return pte; +} + -- cgit v1.2.3