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

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Date:	Thu, 20 Jan 2011 21:41:25 +0100
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, bugzilla-daemon@...zilla.kernel.org,
	bugme-daemon@...zilla.kernel.org, casteyde.christian@...e.fr,
	Changli Gao <xiaosuo@...il.com>,
	Vegard Nossum <vegardno@....uio.no>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 27212] New: Warning kmemcheck: Caught 64-bit
 read from uninitialized memory in netlink_broadcast_filtered

Le jeudi 20 janvier 2011 à 12:25 -0800, Andrew Morton a écrit :
> (switched to email.  Please respond via emailed reply-to-all, not via the
> bugzilla web interface).
> 
> On Thu, 20 Jan 2011 20:08:32 GMT
> bugzilla-daemon@...zilla.kernel.org wrote:
> 
> > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27212
> > 
> >            Summary: Warning kmemcheck: Caught 64-bit read from
> >                     uninitialized memory in netlink_broadcast_filtered
> >            Product: Other
> >            Version: 2.5
> >     Kernel Version: 2.6.38-rc1
> >           Platform: All
> >         OS/Version: Linux
> >               Tree: Mainline
> >             Status: NEW
> >           Severity: normal
> >           Priority: P1
> >          Component: Other
> >         AssignedTo: other_other@...nel-bugs.osdl.org
> >         ReportedBy: casteyde.christian@...e.fr
> >         Regression: Yes
> > 
> > 
> > Athlon 64 X2 3000 in 64bits
> > Slackware64 13.1
> > Kernel compiled with kmemcheck and other debug options
> > 
> > At boot I got the following warning:
> > 
> > PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
> > PCI: pci_cache_line_size set to 64 bytes
> > pci 0000:00:00.0: address space collision: [mem 0xe0000000-0xefffffff pref]
> > conflicts with GART [mem 0x
> > e0000000-0xefffffff]
> > reserve RAM buffer: 000000000009fc00 - 000000000009ffff 
> > reserve RAM buffer: 000000003ffb0000 - 000000003fffffff
> > WARNING: kmemcheck: Caught 64-bit read from uninitialized memory
> > (ffff88003e170eb0)
> > 0000000000000000010000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
> >  i i i i i i i i i i i i u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u
> >                                  ^
> > 
> > Pid: 1, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.38-rc1 #2 K8 Combo-Z/K8 Combo-Z
> > RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff8127ad72>]  [<ffffffff8127ad72>] memmove+0x122/0x1a0
> > RSP: 0018:ffff88003e0b3c60  EFLAGS: 00010202
> > RAX: ffff88003e170080 RBX: ffff88003e27b500 RCX: 0000000000000020
> > RDX: 0000000000000018 RSI: ffff88003e170ea0 RDI: ffff88003e1700a0
> > RBP: ffff88003e0b3c60 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000001
> > R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000000
> > R13: 0000000000000080 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000001
> > FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88003fc00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
> > CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
> > CR2: ffff88003e018abc CR3: 0000000001a1c000 CR4: 00000000000006f0
> > DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
> > DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff4ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
> >  [<ffffffff814741c2>] pskb_expand_head+0xc2/0x2a0
> >  [<ffffffff81498fa7>] netlink_broadcast_filtered+0xa7/0x4a0
> >  [<ffffffff814993b8>] netlink_broadcast+0x18/0x20
> >  [<ffffffff8149b884>] genlmsg_mcast+0x144/0x180
> >  [<ffffffff8149bc4a>] genl_ctrl_event+0xca/0x450
> >  [<ffffffff8149c75d>] genl_register_mc_group+0x10d/0x2a0
> >  [<ffffffff81ad9da4>] genl_init+0x6c/0x84
> >  [<ffffffff810001de>] do_one_initcall+0x3e/0x170
> >  [<ffffffff81aae6ea>] kernel_init+0x197/0x21b
> >  [<ffffffff81003254>] kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10
> >  [<ffffffffffffffff>] 0xffffffffffffffff
> > pnp: PnP ACPI init
> > ACPI: bus type pnp registered
> > pnp 00:00: [bus 00-ff]
> > pnp 00:00: [io  0x0cf8-0x0cff]
> > 
> > This is specific to 2.6.38-rc1.
> > 
> 

Likely a false positive after commit ca44ac38
(net: don't reallocate skb->head unless the current one hasn't the
needed extra size or is shared)

ksize() allows us to use a bit more than what was asked at kmalloc()
time, because of discrete kmem caches sizes.

We probably need to instruct kmemcheck of this.


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