netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] net: remove two kmemcheck annotations

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Message-Id: <20100903.094504.57458838.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Fri, 03 Sep 2010 09:45:04 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] net: remove two kmemcheck annotations

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.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@...il.com>

Applied.
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