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