linux-kernel - Re: [TIP] BUG kmalloc-4096: Poison overwritten (ath5k_rx_skb

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Message-ID: <20090222194236.GA6060@nowhere>
Date:	Sun, 22 Feb 2009 20:42:37 +0100
From:	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
To:	Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...il.com>
Cc:	Sitsofe Wheeler <sitsofe@...oo.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, ath5k-devel@...ema.h4ckr.net,
	Nick Kossifidis <mickflemm@...il.com>,
	"Luis R. Rodriguez" <lrodriguez@...eros.com>, Bob Copeland <me@bob>
Subject: Re: [TIP] BUG kmalloc-4096: Poison overwritten (ath5k_rx_skb_alloc)

On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 08:27:38PM +0100, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> On 22.2.2009 18:10, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
>> I have some troubles with kmemcheck, so I give up for now.
>> Well, by reading the kmemcheck documentation, it tells that there can be some false
>> positives so...
>
> This has nothing to do with kmemcheck.
>
>> Since we are not sure this is a real bug, I'm not sure it would be interesting.
>
> There is no false positive possibility with these checkers, so this is  
> pretty much interesting, because it is a bug.


If so, Documentation/kmemcheck.txt really needs an update.

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