linux-kernel - Parsing Structures postmortem from memory dump

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Date:	Tue, 06 May 2008 15:04:05 -0400
From:	Adrian Sud <pigsflew2008@...il.com>
To:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Parsing Structures postmortem from memory dump

Hi,

I am working on a project attempting to extend the volatility toolkit 
(www.volatilesystems.com) to read Linux memory; for now I am attempting 
to support Kernel 2.6.22-14 using i686 arch.

What I mean to do is have it first identify that the image is from a 
linux environment, and then parse out the processes that were running 
when the image was taken.

I've looked at /include/linux/sched.h and tried to understand the 
task_struct structure, but it appears to be variable-length, determined 
at compile time, and I can't tell exactly how these are stored 
throughout memory--In a list? a tree?

If anyone can point me to more information toward finding out how to 
trace this, I would appreciate it.

Thank you,

Adrian Sud

UMass Amherst
Dept. of Computer Science
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