linux-kernel - Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 27212] New: Warning kmemcheck: Caught 64-bit read from uninitialized memory in netlink_broadcast

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Message-Id: <20110214.114318.112601812.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 14 Feb 2011 11:43:18 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:	penberg@...nel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, bugzilla-daemon@...zilla.kernel.org,
	bugme-daemon@...zilla.kernel.org, casteyde.christian@...e.fr,
	xiaosuo@...il.com, vegardno@....uio.no,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 27212] New: Warning kmemcheck: Caught 64-bit
 read from uninitialized memory in netlink_broadcast_filtered

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2011 18:35:22 +0100

> Le vendredi 21 janvier 2011 à 09:49 +0200, Pekka Enberg a écrit :
> 
>> It actually looks like a bug in SLUB+kmemcheck. The 
>> kmemcheck_slab_alloc() call in slab_post_alloc_hook() should use ksize() 
>> instead of s->objsize. SLAB seems to do the right thing already. Anyone 
>> care to send a patch my way?
>> 
> 
> Hmm, what do you think of following patch ?
> 
> Thanks, and sorry for the delay.
> 
> [PATCH] slub: fix kmemcheck calls to match ksize() hints
> 
> Recent use of ksize() in network stack (commit ca44ac38 : net: don't
> reallocate skb->head unless the current one hasn't the needed extra size
> or is shared) triggers kmemcheck warnings, because ksize() can return
> more space than kmemcheck is aware of.
> 
> Pekka Enberg noticed SLAB+kmemcheck is doing the right thing, while SLUB
> +kmemcheck doesnt.
> 
> Bugzilla reference #27212
> 
> Reported-by: Christian Casteyde <casteyde.christian@...e.fr>
> Suggested-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>

Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
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