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| author | Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com> | 2008-04-04 00:51:41 +0200 |
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| committer | Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com> | 2009-06-13 15:37:30 +0200 |
| commit | dfec072ecd35ba6ecad2d51dde325253ac9a2936 (patch) | |
| tree | ccf682a631ef8edc0675d68d004bc3a80b34b648 /kernel | |
| parent | kmemcheck: add the kmemcheck documentation (diff) | |
| download | linux-dfec072ecd35ba6ecad2d51dde325253ac9a2936.tar.xz linux-dfec072ecd35ba6ecad2d51dde325253ac9a2936.zip | |
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.c | 12 |
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 |