Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 15 Feb 2011 14:21:11 -0800 (PST) | From | David Rientjes <> | Subject | Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 27212] New: Warning kmemcheck: Caught 64-bit read from uninitialized memory in netlink_broadcast_filtered |
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On Tue, 15 Feb 2011, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> > [PATCH] slub: fix kmemcheck calls to match ksize() hints > > > > Recent use of ksize() in network stack (commit ca44ac38 : net: don't > > reallocate skb->head unless the current one hasn't the needed extra size > > or is shared) triggers kmemcheck warnings, because ksize() can return > > more space than kmemcheck is aware of. > > > > Pekka Enberg noticed SLAB+kmemcheck is doing the right thing, while SLUB > > +kmemcheck doesnt. > > > > Bugzilla reference #27212 > > > > Reported-by: Christian Casteyde <casteyde.christian@free.fr> > > Suggested-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> > > Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> > > CC: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> > > CC: Changli Gao <xiaosuo@gmail.com> > > CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
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