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Ingo Molnar reported the following kmemcheck warning when running both
kmemleak and kmemcheck enabled:
PM: Adding info for No Bus:vcsa7
WARNING: kmemcheck: Caught 32-bit read from uninitialized memory
(f6f6e1a4)
d873f9f600000000c42ae4c1005c87f70000000070665f666978656400000000
i i i i u u u u i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i u u u
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Pid: 3091, comm: kmemleak Not tainted (2.6.31-rc7-tip #1303) P4DC6
EIP: 0060:[<c110301f>] EFLAGS: 00010006 CPU: 0
EIP is at scan_block+0x3f/0xe0
EAX: f40bd700 EBX: f40bd780 ECX: f16b46c0 EDX: 00000001
ESI: f6f6e1a4 EDI: 00000000 EBP: f10f3f4c ESP: c2605fcc
DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 00e0 SS: 0068
CR0: 8005003b CR2: e89a4844 CR3: 30ff1000 CR4: 000006f0
DR0: 00000000 DR1: 00000000 DR2: 00000000 DR3: 00000000
DR6: ffff4ff0 DR7: 00000400
[<c110313c>] scan_object+0x7c/0xf0
[<c1103389>] kmemleak_scan+0x1d9/0x400
[<c1103a3c>] kmemleak_scan_thread+0x4c/0xb0
[<c10819d4>] kthread+0x74/0x80
[<c10257db>] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x3c
[<ffffffff>] 0xffffffff
kmemleak: 515 new suspected memory leaks (see
/sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak)
kmemleak: 42 new suspected memory leaks (see /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak)
The problem here is that kmemleak will scan partially initialized
objects that makes kmemcheck complain. Fix that up by skipping
uninitialized memory regions when kmemcheck is enabled.
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
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Add the bitfield API which can be used to annotate bitfields in structs
and get rid of false positive reports.
According to Al Viro, the syntax we were using (putting #ifdef inside
macro arguments) was not valid C. He also suggested using begin/end
markers instead, which is what we do now.
[rebased for mainline inclusion]
Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
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This adds support for tracking the initializedness of memory that
was allocated with the page allocator. Highmem requests are not
tracked.
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
[build fix for !CONFIG_KMEMCHECK]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
[rebased for mainline inclusion]
Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
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This patch hooks into the DMA API to prevent the reporting of the
false positives that would otherwise be reported when memory is
accessed that is also used directly by devices.
[rebased for mainline inclusion]
Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
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With kmemcheck enabled, the slab allocator needs to do this:
1. Tell kmemcheck to allocate the shadow memory which stores the status of
each byte in the allocation proper, e.g. whether it is initialized or
uninitialized.
2. Tell kmemcheck which parts of memory that should be marked uninitialized.
There are actually a few more states, such as "not yet allocated" and
"recently freed".
If a slab cache is set up using the SLAB_NOTRACK flag, it will never return
memory that can take page faults because of kmemcheck.
If a slab cache is NOT set up using the SLAB_NOTRACK flag, callers can still
request memory with the __GFP_NOTRACK flag. This does not prevent the page
faults from occuring, however, but marks the object in question as being
initialized so that no warnings will ever be produced for this object.
In addition to (and in contrast to) __GFP_NOTRACK, the
__GFP_NOTRACK_FALSE_POSITIVE flag indicates that the allocation should
not be tracked _because_ it would produce a false positive. Their values
are identical, but need not be so in the future (for example, we could now
enable/disable false positives with a config option).
Parts of this patch were contributed by Pekka Enberg but merged for
atomicity.
Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
[rebased for mainline inclusion]
Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
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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>
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