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* [PATCH net-next-2.6] net: remove two kmemcheck annotations
@ 2010-09-03 16:27 Eric Dumazet
  2010-09-03 16:45 ` David Miller
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Eric Dumazet @ 2010-09-03 16:27 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: David Miller; +Cc: netdev

__alloc_skb() uses a memset() to clear all the beginning of skb,
including bitfields contained in 'flags1' & 'flags2'.

We dont need any more to use kmemcheck_annotate_bitfield() on these
fields. However, we still need it for the clone part, which is not
cleared.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
---
 net/core/skbuff.c |    2 --
 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/core/skbuff.c b/net/core/skbuff.c
index 231dff0..c030cf8 100644
--- a/net/core/skbuff.c
+++ b/net/core/skbuff.c
@@ -202,8 +202,6 @@ struct sk_buff *__alloc_skb(unsigned int size, gfp_t gfp_mask,
 	skb->data = data;
 	skb_reset_tail_pointer(skb);
 	skb->end = skb->tail + size;
-	kmemcheck_annotate_bitfield(skb, flags1);
-	kmemcheck_annotate_bitfield(skb, flags2);
 #ifdef NET_SKBUFF_DATA_USES_OFFSET
 	skb->mac_header = ~0U;
 #endif



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* Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] net: remove two kmemcheck annotations
  2010-09-03 16:27 [PATCH net-next-2.6] net: remove two kmemcheck annotations Eric Dumazet
@ 2010-09-03 16:45 ` David Miller
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: David Miller @ 2010-09-03 16:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: eric.dumazet; +Cc: netdev

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2010 18:27:08 +0200

> __alloc_skb() uses a memset() to clear all the beginning of skb,
> including bitfields contained in 'flags1' & 'flags2'.
> 
> We dont need any more to use kmemcheck_annotate_bitfield() on these
> fields. However, we still need it for the clone part, which is not
> cleared.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>

Applied.

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