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2010-02-17	kmemcheck: Test the full object in kmemcheck_is_obj_initialized()	Catalin Marinas
	This is a fix for bug #14845 (bugzilla.kernel.org). The update_checksum() function in mm/kmemleak.c calls kmemcheck_is_obj_initialised() before scanning an object. When KMEMCHECK_PARTIAL_OK is enabled, this function returns true. However, the crc32_le() reads smaller intervals (32-bit) for which kmemleak_is_obj_initialised() may be false leading to a kmemcheck warning. Note that kmemcheck_is_obj_initialized() is currently only used by kmemleak before scanning a memory location. Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Christian Casteyde <casteyde.christian@free.fr> Cc: Vegard Nossum <vegardno@ifi.uio.no> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2009-06-13	kmemcheck: add the kmemcheck core	Vegard Nossum
	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>