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

Pekka Enberg
2011-04-20T07:49:49Z

On 4/20/11 10:45 AM, casteyde.christian@free.fr wrote:
> Indeed I can reproduce each time I boot, however I didn't managed to apply the
> patch to test it on -rc3 (neither -rc4), only the first hunk passed.

That's odd. Eric?

> I simply boot on this laptop with kmemcheck activated to get the warning, with
> vanilla -rc3. I've also tested -rc4 yersterday (without the patch therefore),
> the warning was not the same (it's a bit later, I will post the dmesg output on
> bugzilla tonight).

That's expected. You're unlikely to see the problem in the exact same
place across different kernel configs and versions.

Pekka