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Frederic Weisbecker ebc8827f75 x86: Barf when vmalloc and kmemcheck faults happen in NMI
In x86, faults exit by executing the iret instruction, which then
reenables NMIs if we faulted in NMI context. Then if a fault
happens in NMI, another NMI can nest after the fault exits.

But we don't yet support nested NMIs because we have only one NMI
stack. To prevent from that, check that vmalloc and kmemcheck
faults don't happen in this context. Most of the other kernel faults
in NMIs can be more easily spotted by finding explicit
copy_from,to_user() calls on review.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
2010-10-14 20:43:36 +02:00
Catalin Marinas 81fc03909a kmemcheck: Test the full object in kmemcheck_is_obj_initialized()
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>
2010-02-17 21:39:08 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 991d79b0d1 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vegard/kmemcheck
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vegard/kmemcheck:
  kmemcheck: add missing braces to do-while in kmemcheck_annotate_bitfield
  kmemcheck: update documentation
  kmemcheck: depend on HAVE_ARCH_KMEMCHECK
  kmemcheck: remove useless check
  kmemcheck: remove duplicated #include
2009-09-22 08:07:54 -07:00
Pekka Enberg 8e019366ba kmemleak: Don't scan uninitialized memory when kmemcheck is enabled
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
           ^

  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>
2009-09-04 16:05:55 +01:00
Vegard Nossum 414f3251aa kmemcheck: remove useless check
This check is a left-over from ancient times. We now have the equivalent
check much earlier in both the page fault handler and the debug trap
handler (the calls to kmemcheck_active()).

Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
2009-07-01 22:28:42 +02:00
Vegard Nossum ac61a75796 kmemcheck: add opcode self-testing at boot
We've had some troubles in the past with weird instructions. This
patch adds a self-test framework which can be used to verify that
a certain set of opcodes are decoded correctly. Of course, the
opcodes which are not tested can still give the wrong results.

In short, this is just a safeguard to catch unintentional changes
in the opcode decoder. It does not mean that errors can't still
occur!

[rebased for mainline inclusion]
Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
2009-06-15 15:49:22 +02:00
Pekka Enberg f8b4ece2a9 kmemcheck: use kmemcheck_pte_lookup() instead of open-coding it
Lets use kmemcheck_pte_lookup() in kmemcheck_fault() instead of
open-coding it there.

Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
2009-06-15 12:40:00 +02:00
Pekka Enberg 0c33cacd86 kmemcheck: remove multiple ifdef'd definitions of the same global variable
Multiple ifdef'd definitions of the same global variable is ugly and
error-prone. Fix that up.

Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
2009-06-15 12:39:57 +02:00
Pekka Enberg 5b53b76a61 kmemcheck: make initialization message less confusing
The "Bugs, beware!" printout during is cute but confuses users that something
bad happened so change the text to the more boring "Initialized" message.

Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
2009-06-15 12:39:56 +02:00
Vegard Nossum dfec072ecd 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>
2009-06-13 15:37:30 +02:00