linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] kmemleak: Do not enable KMEMCHECK_PARTIAL_OK if DEBUG

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Message-ID: <4B63EC55.8030804@cs.helsinki.fi>
Date:	Sat, 30 Jan 2010 10:22:45 +0200
From:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
To:	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Christian Casteyde <casteyde.christian@...e.fr>,
	vegard.nossum@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kmemleak: Do not enable KMEMCHECK_PARTIAL_OK	if	DEBUG_KMEMLEAK

Catalin Marinas wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-01-27 at 15:09 +0000, Pekka Enberg wrote:
>> Catalin Marinas wrote:
>>> diff --git a/mm/kmemleak.c b/mm/kmemleak.c
>>> index 5b069e4..dfd39ba 100644
>>> --- a/mm/kmemleak.c
>>> +++ b/mm/kmemleak.c
>>> @@ -948,6 +948,25 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(kmemleak_no_scan);
>>>  /*
>>>   * Update an object's checksum and return true if it was modified.
>>>   */
>>> +#ifdef CONFIG_KMEMCHECK_PARTIAL_OK
>>> +static bool update_checksum(struct kmemleak_object *object)
>>> +{
>>> +     u32 crc = 0;
>>> +     unsigned long ptr;
>>> +
>>> +     for (ptr = ALIGN(object->pointer, 4);
>>> +          ptr < ((object->pointer + object->size) & ~3); ptr += 4) {
>>> +             if (!kmemcheck_is_obj_initialized(ptr, 4))
>>> +                     continue;
>>> +             crc = crc32(crc, (void *)ptr, 4);
>>> +     }
>>> +
>>> +     if (object->checksum == crc)
>>> +             return false;
>>> +     object->checksum = crc;
>>> +     return true;
>> I think it would be better to add a function to _kmemcheck_ that checks
>> the full object regardless of CONFIG_KMEMCHECK_PARTIAL_OK and use it here.
> 
> IIRC, it's only kmemleak using kmemcheck_is_obj_initialized(), we could
> convert this to check the full object. Something like below (again, not
> tested yet but if you are ok with the idea I'll test it a bit more and
> add a commit log):

Looks good to me!

> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/kmemcheck/kmemcheck.c b/arch/x86/mm/kmemcheck/kmemcheck.c
> index 8cc1833..b3b531a 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/mm/kmemcheck/kmemcheck.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/mm/kmemcheck/kmemcheck.c
> @@ -337,7 +337,7 @@ bool kmemcheck_is_obj_initialized(unsigned long addr, size_t size)
>  	if (!shadow)
>  		return true;
>  
> -	status = kmemcheck_shadow_test(shadow, size);
> +	status = kmemcheck_shadow_test_all(shadow, size);
>  
>  	return status == KMEMCHECK_SHADOW_INITIALIZED;
>  }
> diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/kmemcheck/shadow.c b/arch/x86/mm/kmemcheck/shadow.c
> index 3f66b82..16c6d9f 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/mm/kmemcheck/shadow.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/mm/kmemcheck/shadow.c
> @@ -139,13 +139,25 @@ enum kmemcheck_shadow kmemcheck_shadow_test(void *shadow, unsigned int size)
>  		if (x[i] == KMEMCHECK_SHADOW_INITIALIZED)
>  			return x[i];
>  	}
> +
> +	return x[0];
>  #else
> +	return kmemcheck_shadow_test_all(shadow, size);
> +#endif
> +}
> +
> +enum kmemcheck_shadow kmemcheck_shadow_test_all(void *shadow, unsigned int size)
> +{
> +	uint8_t *x;
> +	unsigned int i;
> +
> +	x = shadow;
> +
>  	/* All bytes must be initialized. */
>  	for (i = 0; i < size; ++i) {
>  		if (x[i] != KMEMCHECK_SHADOW_INITIALIZED)
>  			return x[i];
>  	}
> -#endif
>  
>  	return x[0];
>  }
> diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/kmemcheck/shadow.h b/arch/x86/mm/kmemcheck/shadow.h
> index af46d9a..ff0b2f7 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/mm/kmemcheck/shadow.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/mm/kmemcheck/shadow.h
> @@ -11,6 +11,8 @@ enum kmemcheck_shadow {
>  void *kmemcheck_shadow_lookup(unsigned long address);
>  
>  enum kmemcheck_shadow kmemcheck_shadow_test(void *shadow, unsigned int size);
> +enum kmemcheck_shadow kmemcheck_shadow_test_all(void *shadow,
> +						unsigned int size);
>  void kmemcheck_shadow_set(void *shadow, unsigned int size);
>  
>  #endif
> 
> 

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