[PATCH] kmemcheck: dump shadow memory on errors
From: Vegard Nossum
Date: Fri May 09 2008 - 12:09:56 EST
This patch will save a (small) snapshot of the shadow memory
surrounding the target of an invalid access and displays it when the
report is printed. This in order to aid the debugging of errors.
A report now typically looks something like this:
kmemcheck: Caught 32-bit read from uninitialized memory (c7809f14)
iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
^
Pid: 1, comm: swapper Not tainted (2.6.26-rc1-00012-g0364f4e-dirty #42)
EIP: 0060:[<c04032b1>] EFLAGS: 00000282 CPU: 0
EIP is at pskb_expand_head+0x91/0x150
EAX: 00000044 EBX: c7852140 ECX: 00000036 EDX: c78be000
ESI: c7809f14 EDI: c78be094 EBP: c783bed0 ESP: c06c9dc8
DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 0000 SS: 0068
CR0: 8005003b CR2: c74006e4 CR3: 006ba000 CR4: 00000680
DR0: 00000000 DR1: 00000000 DR2: 00000000 DR3: 00000000
DR6: 00004000 DR7: 00000000
[<c01190f1>] kmemcheck_read+0xd1/0x160
[<c01192de>] kmemcheck_access+0x15e/0x1a0
[<c04bd2d6>] do_page_fault+0x5e6/0x690
[<c04bb32a>] error_code+0x72/0x78
[<c0417f46>] netlink_broadcast+0x66/0x370
[<c041abba>] genl_ctrl_event+0x2fa/0x310
[<c041b037>] genl_register_mc_group+0xe7/0x130
[<c0698cf3>] genl_init+0x93/0xd0
[<c06735c7>] kernel_init+0x127/0x290
[<c0104cc7>] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10
[<ffffffff>] 0xffffffff
Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@xxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/Kconfig.debug | 11 +++++++++++
arch/x86/kernel/kmemcheck.c | 43 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
2 files changed, 50 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig.debug b/arch/x86/Kconfig.debug
index 255d054..b758750 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig.debug
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig.debug
@@ -298,6 +298,17 @@ config KMEMCHECK_QUEUE_SIZE
if the number of errors occuring between two bursts is larger than
this number, the extra error reports will get lost.
+config KMEMCHECK_SHADOW_COPY_SHIFT
+ int "kmemcheck: shadow copy size (5 => 32 bytes, 6 => 64 bytes)"
+ depends on KMEMCHECK
+ range 2 8
+ default 6
+ help
+ Select the number of shadow bytes to save along with each entry of
+ the queue. These bytes indicate what parts of an allocation are
+ initialized, uninitialized, etc. and will be displayed when an
+ error is detected to help the debugging of a particular problem.
+
config KMEMCHECK_PARTIAL_OK
bool "kmemcheck: allow partially uninitialized memory"
depends on KMEMCHECK
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/kmemcheck.c b/arch/x86/kernel/kmemcheck.c
index f03024a..bdc66ae 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/kmemcheck.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/kmemcheck.c
@@ -37,6 +37,8 @@ enum kmemcheck_error_type {
ERROR_BUG,
};
+#define SHADOW_COPY_SIZE (1 << CONFIG_KMEMCHECK_SHADOW_COPY_SHIFT)
+
struct kmemcheck_error {
enum kmemcheck_error_type type;
@@ -54,6 +56,8 @@ struct kmemcheck_error {
struct pt_regs regs;
struct stack_trace trace;
unsigned long trace_entries[32];
+
+ enum shadow shadow_copy[SHADOW_COPY_SIZE];
};
/*
@@ -101,6 +105,9 @@ error_next_rd(void)
return e;
}
+static void *
+address_get_shadow(unsigned long address);
+
/*
* Save the context of an error.
*/
@@ -111,6 +118,7 @@ error_save(enum shadow state, unsigned long address, unsigned int size,
static unsigned long prev_ip;
struct kmemcheck_error *e;
+ enum shadow *shadow_copy;
/* Don't report several adjacent errors from the same EIP. */
if (regs->ip == prev_ip)
@@ -136,6 +144,12 @@ error_save(enum shadow state, unsigned long address, unsigned int size,
e->trace.max_entries = ARRAY_SIZE(e->trace_entries);
e->trace.skip = 1;
save_stack_trace(&e->trace);
+
+ /* Round address down to nearest 16 bytes */
+ shadow_copy = address_get_shadow(address & ~(SHADOW_COPY_SIZE - 1));
+ BUG_ON(!shadow_copy);
+
+ memcpy(e->shadow_copy, shadow_copy, SHADOW_COPY_SIZE);
}
/*
@@ -171,7 +185,15 @@ error_recall(void)
[SHADOW_FREED] = "freed",
};
+ static const char short_desc[] = {
+ [SHADOW_UNALLOCATED] = 'a',
+ [SHADOW_UNINITIALIZED] = 'u',
+ [SHADOW_INITIALIZED] = 'i',
+ [SHADOW_FREED] = 'f',
+ };
+
struct kmemcheck_error *e;
+ unsigned int i;
e = error_next_rd();
if (!e)
@@ -181,7 +203,20 @@ error_recall(void)
case ERROR_INVALID_ACCESS:
printk(KERN_ERR "kmemcheck: Caught %d-bit read "
"from %s memory (%p)\n",
- e->size, desc[e->state], (void *) e->address);
+ e->size, e->state < ARRAY_SIZE(desc) ?
+ desc[e->state] : "(invalid shadow state)",
+ (void *) e->address);
+
+ printk(KERN_INFO);
+ for (i = 0; i < SHADOW_COPY_SIZE; ++i) {
+ if (e->shadow_copy[i] < ARRAY_SIZE(short_desc))
+ printk("%c", short_desc[e->shadow_copy[i]]);
+ else
+ printk("?");
+ }
+ printk("\n");
+ printk(KERN_INFO "%*c\n",
+ 1 + (int) (e->address & (SHADOW_COPY_SIZE - 1)), '^');
break;
case ERROR_BUG:
printk(KERN_EMERG "kmemcheck: Fatal error\n");
@@ -714,14 +749,14 @@ kmemcheck_read(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long address, unsigned int size)
if (status == SHADOW_INITIALIZED)
return;
- /* Don't warn about it again. */
- set(shadow, size);
-
if (kmemcheck_enabled)
error_save(status, address, size, regs);
if (kmemcheck_enabled == 2)
kmemcheck_enabled = 0;
+
+ /* Don't warn about it again. */
+ set(shadow, size);
}
static void
--
1.5.4.1
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