linux-kernel - Re: kmemcheck detected possible information leak to userspace?

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Message-ID: <87skutu8pw.fsf@basil.nowhere.org>
Date:	Tue, 01 Jul 2008 13:47:39 +0200
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	"Vegard Nossum" <vegard.nossum@...il.com>
Cc:	"Evgeniy Polyakov" <johnpol@....mipt.ru>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	"Pekka Enberg" <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
	"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@...e.hu>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: kmemcheck detected possible information leak to userspace?

"Vegard Nossum" <vegard.nossum@...il.com> writes:

> But there is one thing I forgot: Is this memory initialized by DMA? If
> so, the warning is bogus and I will go hide in shame.

Yes it is.

[btw that was something I noted during the initial review and was then
ridiculed for]

-Andi
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