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

Pekka Enberg
2011-05-09T20:14:05Z

On Mon, 9 May 2011, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> There is still an issue and now you can no longer fix the thing through
> CONFIG_CMPXCHG_LOCAL.
>
> It needs to be legal for slub to deref the counter even if the object has
> been freed.

We can use kmemcheck_mark_initialized() for that.