generic debug pagealloc

CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is now supported by x86, powerpc, sparc64, and
s390.  This patch implements it for the rest of the architectures by
filling the pages with poison byte patterns after free_pages() and
verifying the poison patterns before alloc_pages().

This generic one cannot detect invalid page accesses immediately but
invalid read access may cause invalid dereference by poisoned memory and
invalid write access can be detected after a long delay.

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

arch/avr32/mm/fault.c

@@ -250,21 +250,3 @@ asmlinkage void do_bus_error(unsigned long addr, int write_access,
 	dump_dtlb();
 	die("Bus Error", regs, SIGKILL);
 }
-
-/*
- * This functionality is currently not possible to implement because
- * we're using segmentation to ensure a fixed mapping of the kernel
- * virtual address space.
- *
- * It would be possible to implement this, but it would require us to
- * disable segmentation at startup and load the kernel mappings into
- * the TLB like any other pages. There will be lots of trickery to
- * avoid recursive invocation of the TLB miss handler, though...
- */
-#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
-void kernel_map_pages(struct page *page, int numpages, int enable)
-{
-
-}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(kernel_map_pages);
-#endif

arch/powerpc/Kconfig

@@ -228,6 +228,9 @@ config PPC_OF_PLATFORM_PCI
 	depends on PPC64 # not supported on 32 bits yet
 	default n
 
+config ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
+	def_bool y
+
 source "init/Kconfig"
 
 source "kernel/Kconfig.freezer"

arch/powerpc/Kconfig.debug

@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ config DEBUG_STACK_USAGE
 config DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
         bool "Debug page memory allocations"
         depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !HIBERNATION
+	depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
         help
           Unmap pages from the kernel linear mapping after free_pages().
           This results in a large slowdown, but helps to find certain types

arch/s390/Kconfig

@@ -72,6 +72,9 @@ config PGSTE
 config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
 	def_bool y
 
+config ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
+	def_bool y
+
 mainmenu "Linux Kernel Configuration"
 
 config S390

arch/s390/Kconfig.debug

@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ source "lib/Kconfig.debug"
 config DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
 	bool "Debug page memory allocations"
 	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
+	depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
 	help
 	  Unmap pages from the kernel linear mapping after free_pages().
 	  This results in a slowdown, but helps to find certain types of

arch/sparc/Kconfig

@@ -124,6 +124,9 @@ config ARCH_NO_VIRT_TO_BUS
 config OF
 	def_bool y
 
+config ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
+	def_bool y if SPARC64
+
 source "init/Kconfig"
 
 source "kernel/Kconfig.freezer"

arch/sparc/Kconfig.debug

@@ -24,7 +24,8 @@ config STACK_DEBUG
 
 config DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
 	bool "Debug page memory allocations"
-	depends on SPARC64 && DEBUG_KERNEL && !HIBERNATION
+	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !HIBERNATION
+	depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
 	help
 	  Unmap pages from the kernel linear mapping after free_pages().
 	  This results in a large slowdown, but helps to find certain types

arch/x86/Kconfig

@@ -165,6 +165,9 @@ config AUDIT_ARCH
 config ARCH_SUPPORTS_OPTIMIZED_INLINING
 	def_bool y
 
+config ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
+	def_bool y
+
 # Use the generic interrupt handling code in kernel/irq/:
 config GENERIC_HARDIRQS
 	bool

arch/x86/Kconfig.debug

@@ -75,6 +75,7 @@ config DEBUG_STACK_USAGE
 config DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
 	bool "Debug page memory allocations"
 	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
+	depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
 	---help---
 	  Unmap pages from the kernel linear mapping after free_pages().
 	  This results in a large slowdown, but helps to find certain types

include/linux/mm_types.h

@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
 #include <linux/rwsem.h>
 #include <linux/completion.h>
 #include <linux/cpumask.h>
+#include <linux/page-debug-flags.h>
 #include <asm/page.h>
 #include <asm/mmu.h>
 
@@ -174,6 +175,9 @@ struct vm_area_struct {
 #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
 	struct mempolicy *vm_policy;	/* NUMA policy for the VMA */
 #endif
+#ifdef CONFIG_WANT_PAGE_DEBUG_FLAGS
+	unsigned long debug_flags;	/* Use atomic bitops on this */
+#endif
 };
 
 struct core_thread {

include/linux/page-debug-flags.h

@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+#ifndef LINUX_PAGE_DEBUG_FLAGS_H
+#define  LINUX_PAGE_DEBUG_FLAGS_H
+
+/*
+ * page->debug_flags bits:
+ *
+ * PAGE_DEBUG_FLAG_POISON is set for poisoned pages. This is used to
+ * implement generic debug pagealloc feature. The pages are filled with
+ * poison patterns and set this flag after free_pages(). The poisoned
+ * pages are verified whether the patterns are not corrupted and clear
+ * the flag before alloc_pages().
+ */
+
+enum page_debug_flags {
+	PAGE_DEBUG_FLAG_POISON,		/* Page is poisoned */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Ensure that CONFIG_WANT_PAGE_DEBUG_FLAGS reliably
+ * gets turned off when no debug features are enabling it!
+ */
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_WANT_PAGE_DEBUG_FLAGS
+#if !defined(CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING) \
+/* && !defined(CONFIG_PAGE_DEBUG_SOMETHING_ELSE) && ... */
+#error WANT_PAGE_DEBUG_FLAGS is turned on with no debug features!
+#endif
+#endif /* CONFIG_WANT_PAGE_DEBUG_FLAGS */
+
+#endif /* LINUX_PAGE_DEBUG_FLAGS_H */

include/linux/poison.h

@@ -17,6 +17,9 @@
  */
 #define TIMER_ENTRY_STATIC	((void *) 0x74737461)
 
+/********** mm/debug-pagealloc.c **********/
+#define PAGE_POISON 0xaa
+
 /********** mm/slab.c **********/
 /*
  * Magic nums for obj red zoning.

lib/Kconfig.debug

@@ -796,6 +796,7 @@ config SYSCTL_SYSCALL_CHECK
 	  to properly maintain and use. This enables checks that help
 	  you to keep things correct.
 
+source mm/Kconfig.debug
 source kernel/trace/Kconfig
 
 config PROVIDE_OHCI1394_DMA_INIT

mm/Kconfig.debug

@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+config WANT_PAGE_DEBUG_FLAGS
+	bool
+
+config PAGE_POISONING
+	bool "Debug page memory allocations"
+	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
+	depends on !HIBERNATION
+	select DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
+	select WANT_PAGE_DEBUG_FLAGS
+	help
+	   Fill the pages with poison patterns after free_pages() and verify
+	   the patterns before alloc_pages(). This results in a large slowdown,
+	   but helps to find certain types of memory corruptions.
+
+	   This option cannot enalbe with hibernation. Otherwise, it will get
+	   wrong messages for memory corruption because the free pages are not
+	   saved to the suspend image.

mm/Makefile

@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP) += sparse-vmemmap.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_TMPFS_POSIX_ACL) += shmem_acl.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_SLOB) += slob.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_MMU_NOTIFIER) += mmu_notifier.o
+obj-$(CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING) += debug-pagealloc.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_SLAB) += slab.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_SLUB) += slub.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_FAILSLAB) += failslab.o

mm/debug-pagealloc.c

@@ -0,0 +1,129 @@
+#include <linux/kernel.h>
+#include <linux/mm.h>
+#include <linux/page-debug-flags.h>
+#include <linux/poison.h>
+
+static inline void set_page_poison(struct page *page)
+{
+	__set_bit(PAGE_DEBUG_FLAG_POISON, &page->debug_flags);
+}
+
+static inline void clear_page_poison(struct page *page)
+{
+	__clear_bit(PAGE_DEBUG_FLAG_POISON, &page->debug_flags);
+}
+
+static inline bool page_poison(struct page *page)
+{
+	return test_bit(PAGE_DEBUG_FLAG_POISON, &page->debug_flags);
+}
+
+static void poison_highpage(struct page *page)
+{
+	/*
+	 * Page poisoning for highmem pages is not implemented.
+	 *
+	 * This can be called from interrupt contexts.
+	 * So we need to create a new kmap_atomic slot for this
+	 * application and it will need interrupt protection.
+	 */
+}
+
+static void poison_page(struct page *page)
+{
+	void *addr;
+
+	if (PageHighMem(page)) {
+		poison_highpage(page);
+		return;
+	}
+	set_page_poison(page);
+	addr = page_address(page);
+	memset(addr, PAGE_POISON, PAGE_SIZE);
+}
+
+static void poison_pages(struct page *page, int n)
+{
+	int i;
+
+	for (i = 0; i < n; i++)
+		poison_page(page + i);
+}
+
+static bool single_bit_flip(unsigned char a, unsigned char b)
+{
+	unsigned char error = a ^ b;
+
+	return error && !(error & (error - 1));
+}
+
+static void check_poison_mem(unsigned char *mem, size_t bytes)
+{
+	unsigned char *start;
+	unsigned char *end;
+
+	for (start = mem; start < mem + bytes; start++) {
+		if (*start != PAGE_POISON)
+			break;
+	}
+	if (start == mem + bytes)
+		return;
+
+	for (end = mem + bytes - 1; end > start; end--) {
+		if (*end != PAGE_POISON)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	if (!printk_ratelimit())
+		return;
+	else if (start == end && single_bit_flip(*start, PAGE_POISON))
+		printk(KERN_ERR "pagealloc: single bit error\n");
+	else
+		printk(KERN_ERR "pagealloc: memory corruption\n");
+
+	print_hex_dump(KERN_ERR, "", DUMP_PREFIX_ADDRESS, 16, 1, start,
+			end - start + 1, 1);
+	dump_stack();
+}
+
+static void unpoison_highpage(struct page *page)
+{
+	/*
+	 * See comment in poison_highpage().
+	 * Highmem pages should not be poisoned for now
+	 */
+	BUG_ON(page_poison(page));
+}
+
+static void unpoison_page(struct page *page)
+{
+	if (PageHighMem(page)) {
+		unpoison_highpage(page);
+		return;
+	}
+	if (page_poison(page)) {
+		void *addr = page_address(page);
+
+		check_poison_mem(addr, PAGE_SIZE);
+		clear_page_poison(page);
+	}
+}
+
+static void unpoison_pages(struct page *page, int n)
+{
+	int i;
+
+	for (i = 0; i < n; i++)
+		unpoison_page(page + i);
+}
+
+void kernel_map_pages(struct page *page, int numpages, int enable)
+{
+	if (!debug_pagealloc_enabled)
+		return;
+
+	if (enable)
+		unpoison_pages(page, numpages);
+	else
+		poison_pages(page, numpages);
+}