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.Dd January 31, 2006
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.Dt MEMGUARD 9
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm MemGuard
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.Nd "memory allocator for debugging purposes"
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.Cd "options DEBUG_MEMGUARD"
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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.Nm
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is a simple and small replacement memory allocator designed
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to help detect tamper-after-free scenarios.
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These problems are more and more common and likely with
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multithreaded kernels where race conditions are more prevalent.
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.Pp
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Currently,
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.Nm
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can only take over
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.Fn malloc ,
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.Fn realloc
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and
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.Fn free
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for a particular malloc type.
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.Sh EXAMPLES
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To use memguard for memory type compiled into the kernel, one has to add the
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following line to the
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.Pa /boot/loader.conf :
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.Bd -literal -offset indent
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vm.memguard.desc=<memory_type>
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.Ed
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.Pp
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Where memory_type is a short description of memory type to monitor.
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The short description of memory type is the second argument to
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.Xr MALLOC_DEFINE 9 ,
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so one has to find it in the kernel source.
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.Pp
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To use memguard for memory type defined in a kernel module, one has to set
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.Va vm.memguard.desc
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.Xr sysctl 8
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variable before loading the module:
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.Bd -literal -offset indent
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sysctl vm.memguard.desc=<memory_type>
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.Ed
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.Pp
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The
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.Va vm.memguard.divisor
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boot-time tunable is used to scale how much of
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.Va kmem_map
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one wants to allocate for
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.Nm .
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The default is 10, so
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.Va kmem_size Ns /10
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bytes will be used.
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The
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.Va kmem_size
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value can be obtained via the
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.Va vm.kmem_size
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.Xr sysctl 8
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variable.
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr sysctl 8 ,
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.Xr vmstat 8 ,
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.Xr contigmalloc 9 ,
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.Xr malloc 9 ,
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.Xr redzone 9
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.Sh HISTORY
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.Nm
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first appeared in
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.Fx 6.0 .
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.Sh AUTHORS
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.An -nosplit
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.Nm
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was written by
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.An Bosko Milekic Aq bmilekic@FreeBSD.org .
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This manual page was written by
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.An Christian Brueffer Aq brueffer@FreeBSD.org .
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.Sh BUGS
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Currently, it is not possible to override UMA
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.Xr zone 9
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allocations.
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