From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: mingo@elte.hu
Cc: eric.dumazet@gmail.com, penberg@cs.helsinki.fi,
vegard.nossum@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: WARNING: kmemcheck: Caught 32-bit read from uninitialized memory (bf438284)
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 02:39:39 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090915.023939.194852114.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090915093440.GA7921@elte.hu>
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 11:34:40 +0200
>
> * Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Either we add kmemcheck annotations, or we switch sock->type from short
>> to int to avoid the hole, and possibly to speedup things...
>>
>> [PATCH] net: kmemcheck annotation in struct socket
>>
>> struct socket has a 16 bit hole that triggers kmemcheck warnings.
>>
>> As suggested by Ingo, use kmemcheck annotations
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
>> ---
>> include/linux/net.h | 5 +++++
>> net/socket.c | 1 +
>> 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+)
>
> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Applied, thanks everyone.
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2009-09-15 8:59 ` WARNING: kmemcheck: Caught 32-bit read from uninitialized memory (bf438284) Eric Dumazet
2009-09-15 9:34 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-09-15 9:39 ` David Miller [this message]
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