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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Lampshade <lampshade@poczta.fm>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: 3.16.2 also contains bug read from uninitialized memory fs/dcache.c:2440
Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2014 07:38:03 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140920143803.GB14094@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mthstsnhzlywdqsiivrl@dymq>

On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 03:20:22PM +0200, Lampshade wrote:
> 
> 3.16.3 also contains this bug. This time it is triggered by line 2439
> bug id 74321 at kernel's bugzilla
> 
> [  108.490143] random: nonblocking pool is initialized
> [  115.938157] WARNING: kmemcheck: Caught 64-bit read from unallocated memory (ffff880099c991c8)
> [  115.939549] 88004000070000000000000000000000d057915e0188ffffc05cc9990088ffff4c1fc96f09000000b891c9990088ffff38409e990088ffff71756575652e62696e00ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff0003000000ffffffff00406181ffffffff00f458590188ffffffffffffffffffff0000000000000000
> [  115.943020]  i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a i i i i i a a a a i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i a a a a a a a a i i i i i i i i
> [  115.946647]                                                                                                                                                  ^
> [  115.948244] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff810e1c72>]  [<ffffffff810e1c72>] switch_names+0xb2/0xe0

Looks like a false-positive, try asking the kmemcheck developers about
this.

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2014-09-20 14:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-20 13:20 3.16.2 also contains bug read from uninitialized memory fs/dcache.c:2440 Lampshade
2014-09-20 14:38 ` Greg KH [this message]
     [not found] <amuybanxwtsrzqnaqdmc@ghqo>
2014-09-06 14:39 ` Lampshade
     [not found] ` <20140906171358.GA26568@kroah.com>
2014-09-07 14:05   ` Lampshade

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