From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pablo Neira Ayuso Subject: [PATCH 11/13] netfilter: x_tables: suppress kmemcheck warning Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2016 12:12:21 +0200 Message-ID: <1477044743-18948-12-git-send-email-pablo@netfilter.org> References: <1477044743-18948-1-git-send-email-pablo@netfilter.org> Cc: davem@davemloft.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from mail.us.es ([193.147.175.20]:36258 "EHLO mail.us.es" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754909AbcJUKMr (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Oct 2016 06:12:47 -0400 Received: from antivirus1-rhel7.int (unknown [192.168.2.11]) by mail.us.es (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76CC026E18 for ; Fri, 21 Oct 2016 12:12:46 +0200 (CEST) Received: from antivirus1-rhel7.int (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by antivirus1-rhel7.int (Postfix) with ESMTP id 660C3DA849 for ; Fri, 21 Oct 2016 12:12:46 +0200 (CEST) Received: from antivirus1-rhel7.int (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by antivirus1-rhel7.int (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61494DA849 for ; Fri, 21 Oct 2016 12:12:43 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <1477044743-18948-1-git-send-email-pablo@netfilter.org> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Florian Westphal Markus Trippelsdorf reports: WARNING: kmemcheck: Caught 64-bit read from uninitialized memory (ffff88001e605480) 4055601e0088ffff000000000000000090686d81ffffffff0000000000000000 u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u i i i i i i i i u u u u u u u u ^ |RIP: 0010:[] [] nf_register_net_hook+0x51/0x160 [..] [] nf_register_net_hook+0x51/0x160 [] nf_register_net_hooks+0x3f/0xa0 [] ipt_register_table+0xe5/0x110 [..] This warning is harmless; we copy 'uninitialized' data from the hook ops but it will not be used. Long term the structures keeping run-time data should be disentangled from those only containing config-time data (such as where in the list to insert a hook), but thats -next material. Reported-by: Markus Trippelsdorf Suggested-by: Al Viro Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal Acked-by: Aaron Conole Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso --- net/netfilter/x_tables.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/netfilter/x_tables.c b/net/netfilter/x_tables.c index e0aa7c1d0224..fc4977456c30 100644 --- a/net/netfilter/x_tables.c +++ b/net/netfilter/x_tables.c @@ -1513,7 +1513,7 @@ xt_hook_ops_alloc(const struct xt_table *table, nf_hookfn *fn) if (!num_hooks) return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL); - ops = kmalloc(sizeof(*ops) * num_hooks, GFP_KERNEL); + ops = kcalloc(num_hooks, sizeof(*ops), GFP_KERNEL); if (ops == NULL) return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM); -- 2.1.4