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Pawel Jakub Dawidek
d362c40d3a Improve memguard a bit:
- Provide tunable vm.memguard.desc, so one can specify memory type without
  changing the code and recompiling the kernel.
- Allow to use memguard for kernel modules by providing sysctl
  vm.memguard.desc, which can be changed to short description of memory
  type before module is loaded.
- Move as much memguard code as possible to memguard.c.
- Add sysctl node vm.memguard. and move memguard-specific sysctl there.
- Add malloc_desc2type() function for finding memory type based on its
  short description (ks_shortdesc field).
- Memory type can be changed (via vm.memguard.desc sysctl) only if it
  doesn't exist (will be loaded later) or when no memory is allocated yet.
  If there is allocated memory for the given memory type, return EBUSY.
- Implement two ways of memory types comparsion and make safer/slower the
  default.
2005-12-30 11:45:07 +00:00
Bosko Milekic
8076cb5289 Well, it seems that I pre-maturely removed the "All rights reserved"
statement from some files, so re-add it for the moment, until the
related legalese is sorted out.  This change affects:

sys/kern/kern_mbuf.c
sys/vm/memguard.c
sys/vm/memguard.h
sys/vm/uma.h
sys/vm/uma_core.c
sys/vm/uma_dbg.c
sys/vm/uma_dbg.h
sys/vm/uma_int.h
2005-02-16 21:45:59 +00:00
Bosko Milekic
7fae6a1116 Rather than overloading the page->object field like UMA does, use instead
an unused pageq queue reference in the page structure to stash a pointer
to the MemGuard FIFO.  Using the page->object field caused problems
because when vm_map_protect() was called the second time to set
VM_PROT_DEFAULT back onto a set of pages in memguard_map, the protection
in the VM would be changed but the PMAP code would lazily not restore
the PG_RW bit on the underlying pages right away (see pmap_protect()).
So when a page fault finally occured and the VM noticed the faulting
address corresponds to a page that _does_ have write access now, it
would then call into PMAP to set back PG_RW (i386 case being discussed
here).  However, before it got to do that, an assertion on the object
lock not being owned would get triggered, as the object of the faulting
page would need to be locked but was overloaded by MemGuard.  This is
precisely why MemGuard cannot overload page->object.

Submitted by: Alan Cox (alc@)
2005-02-15 22:17:07 +00:00
Bosko Milekic
0341256576 Implement support for buffers larger than PAGE_SIZE in MemGuard. Adds
a little bit of complexity but performance requirements lacking (this is
a debugging allocator after all), it's really not too bad (still
only 317 lines).

Also add an additional check to help catch really weird 3-threads-involved
races: make memguard_free() write to the first page handed back, always,
before it does anything else.

Note that there is still a problem in VM+PMAP (specifically with
vm_map_protect) w.r.t. MemGuard uses it, but this will be fixed shortly
and this change stands on its own.
2005-02-10 22:36:05 +00:00
Bosko Milekic
eca64e79b5 s/round_page/trunc_page/g
I meant trunc_page.  It's only a coincidence this hasn't caused
problems yet.

Pointed out by: Antoine Brodin <antoine.brodin@laposte.net>
2005-01-22 00:09:34 +00:00
Bosko Milekic
e4eb384b47 Bring in MemGuard, a very simple and small replacement allocator
designed to help detect tamper-after-free scenarios, a problem more
and more common and likely with multithreaded kernels where race
conditions are more prevalent.

Currently MemGuard can only take over malloc()/realloc()/free() for
particular (a) malloc type(s) and the code brought in with this
change manually instruments it to take over M_SUBPROC allocations
as an example.  If you are planning to use it, for now you must:

	1) Put "options DEBUG_MEMGUARD" in your kernel config.
	2) Edit src/sys/kern/kern_malloc.c manually, look for
	   "XXX CHANGEME" and replace the M_SUBPROC comparison with
	   the appropriate malloc type (this might require additional
	   but small/simple code modification if, say, the malloc type
	   is declared out of scope).
	3) Build and install your kernel.  Tune vm.memguard_divisor
	   boot-time tunable which is used to scale how much of kmem_map
	   you want to allott for MemGuard's use.  The default is 10,
	   so kmem_size/10.

ToDo:
	1) Bring in a memguard(9) man page.
	2) Better instrumentation (e.g., boot-time) of MemGuard taking
	   over malloc types.
	3) Teach UMA about MemGuard to allow MemGuard to override zone
	   allocations too.
	4) Improve MemGuard if necessary.

This work is partly based on some old patches from Ian Dowse.
2005-01-21 18:09:17 +00:00