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>
diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
index ce664f9..9ef80bb 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 @@
.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