tools/reorder/mcount.c

Tue, 06 Jan 2015 21:39:09 +0100

author
Michael Schloh von Bennewitz <michael@schloh.com>
date
Tue, 06 Jan 2015 21:39:09 +0100
branch
TOR_BUG_9701
changeset 8
97036ab72558
permissions
-rw-r--r--

Conditionally force memory storage according to privacy.thirdparty.isolate;
This solves Tor bug #9701, complying with disk avoidance documented in
https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser/design/#disk-avoidance.

     1 /* This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
     2  * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
     3  * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/. */
     5 /*
     7   A library that can be LD_PRELOAD-ed to dump a function's address on
     8   function entry.
    10  */
    12 #include <unistd.h>
    14 /**
    15  * When compiled with `-pg' (or even just `-p'), gcc inserts a call to
    16  * |mcount| in each function prologue. This implementation of |mcount|
    17  * will grab the return address from the stack, and write it to stdout
    18  * as a binary stream, creating a gross execution trace the
    19  * instrumented program.
    20  *
    21  * For more info on gcc inline assembly, see:
    22  *
    23  *   <http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-ia.html?dwzone=linux>
    24  *
    25  */
    26 void
    27 mcount()
    28 {
    29     register unsigned int caller;
    30     unsigned int buf[1];
    32     // Grab the return address. 
    33     asm("movl 4(%%esp),%0"
    34         : "=r"(caller));
    36     buf[0] = caller;
    37     write(STDOUT_FILENO, buf, sizeof buf[0]);
    38 }

mercurial