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

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Date:	Wed, 20 Apr 2011 08:56:09 +0300
From:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
CC:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, bugzilla-daemon@...zilla.kernel.org,
	bugme-daemon@...zilla.kernel.org, casteyde.christian@...e.fr,
	Vegard Nossum <vegardno@....uio.no>
Subject: Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 33502] New: Caught 64-bit read from uninitialized
 memory in __alloc_skb

On 4/19/11 11:17 PM, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> Le mardi 19 avril 2011 à 12:10 -0500, Christoph Lameter a écrit :
>> On Tue, 19 Apr 2011, Eric Dumazet wrote:
>>
>>>   	}
>>>   }
>>>
>>> -#ifdef CONFIG_CMPXCHG_LOCAL
>>> +#if defined(CONFIG_CMPXCHG_LOCAL)&&  \
>>> +	!defined(CONFIG_KMEMCHECK)&&  !defined(DEBUG_PAGEALLOC)
>>> +#define SLUB_USE_CMPXCHG_DOUBLE
>>> +#endif
>>> +
>>> +#ifdef SLUB_USE_CMPXCHG_DOUBLE
>>>   #ifdef CONFIG_PREEMPT
>>>   /*
>> Ugg.. Isnt there some way to indicate to kmemcheck that a speculative
>> access is occurring?
> Yes, here is a totally untested patch (only compiled here), to keep
> kmemcheck&  cmpxchg_double together.

Looks good to me! Can we get someone to test it as well?
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