Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 33502] New: Caught 64-bit read from uninitialized memory in __alloc_skb

Christoph Lameter
2011-04-19T21:18:48Z

On Tue, 19 Apr 2011, Eric Dumazet wrote:

> > Ugg.. Isnt there some way to indicate to kmemcheck that a speculative
> > access is occurring?
>
> Yes, here is a totally untested patch (only compiled here), to keep
> kmemcheck & cmpxchg_double together.

Ok looks somewhat saner. Why does DEBUG_PAGEALLOC need this? Pages are
never freed as long as a page is frozen and a page needs to be frozen to
be allocated from. I dont see how we could reference a free page.