From dfec072ecd35ba6ecad2d51dde325253ac9a2936 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vegard Nossum Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2008 00:51:41 +0200 Subject: 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 Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg [export kmemcheck_mark_initialized] [build fix for setup_max_cpus] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar [rebased for mainline inclusion] Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum --- kernel/sysctl.c | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) (limited to 'kernel/sysctl.c') 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 #include #include +#include #include #include #include @@ -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 -- cgit v1.2.1