Commit a9343208 authored by Rusty Russell's avatar Rusty Russell

mem: add memtaint().

Useful if you're going to reuse a buffer later.
Signed-off-by: default avatarRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
parent 2bf37a60
......@@ -107,3 +107,22 @@ bool memeqzero(const void *data, size_t length)
/* Now we know that's zero, memcmp with self. */
return memcmp(data, p, length) == 0;
}
void memtaint(void *data, size_t len)
{
/* Using 16 bytes is a bit quicker than 4 */
const unsigned tainter[]
= { 0xdeadbeef, 0xdeadbeef, 0xdeadbeef, 0xdeadbeef };
char *p = data;
while (len >= sizeof(tainter)) {
memcpy(p, tainter, sizeof(tainter));
p += sizeof(tainter);
len -= sizeof(tainter);
}
memcpy(p, tainter, len);
#if HAVE_VALGRIND_MEMCHECK_H
VALGRIND_MAKE_MEM_UNDEFINED(data, len);
#endif
}
......@@ -275,4 +275,20 @@ static inline void *memcheck_(const void *data, size_t len)
#else
#define memcheck(data, len) memcheck_((data), (len))
#endif
/**
* memtaint - mark a memory region unused
* @data: start of region
* @len: length in bytes
*
* This writes an "0xdeadbeef" eyecatcher repeatedly to the memory.
* When running under valgrind, it also tells valgrind that the memory is
* uninitialized, triggering valgrind errors if it is used for branches
* or written out (or passed to memcheck!) in future.
*
* Example:
* // We'll reuse this buffer later, but be sure we don't access it.
* memtaint(somebytes, bytes_len);
*/
void memtaint(void *data, size_t len);
#endif /* CCAN_MEM_H */
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