netdev - Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 33502] New: Caught 64-bit read from uninitialized memory in __alloc

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Message-Id: <20110418153852.153d3ed3.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Mon, 18 Apr 2011 15:38:52 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	bugzilla-daemon@...zilla.kernel.org,
	bugme-daemon@...zilla.kernel.org, casteyde.christian@...e.fr,
	Vegard Nossum <vegardno@....uio.no>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 33502] New: Caught 64-bit read from
 uninitialized memory in __alloc_skb


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On Sun, 17 Apr 2011 19:29:39 GMT
bugzilla-daemon@...zilla.kernel.org wrote:

> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33502
> 
>            Summary: Caught 64-bit read from uninitialized memory in
>                     __alloc_skb
>            Product: Networking
>            Version: 2.5
>     Kernel Version: 2.6.39-rc3
>           Platform: All
>         OS/Version: Linux
>               Tree: Mainline
>             Status: NEW
>           Severity: normal
>           Priority: P1
>          Component: IPV4
>         AssignedTo: shemminger@...ux-foundation.org
>         ReportedBy: casteyde.christian@...e.fr
>         Regression: Yes
> 
> 
> Acer Aspire 1511LMi
> Athlon 64 3GHz in 64bits mode
> Slackware 64 13.1
> 
> Since 2.6.39-rc3 with kmemcheck enabled, I get the following warning:
> ...
> pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket0: cs: memory probe 0x0c0000-0x0fffff: excluding
> 0xc0000-0xfffff
> pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket0: cs: memory probe 0x60000000-0x60ffffff: excluding
> 0x60000000-0x
> 60ffffff
> pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket0: cs: memory probe 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff: excluding
> 0xa0000000-0x
> a0ffffff
> udev: renamed network interface wlan0 to eth1
> WARNING: kmemcheck: Caught 64-bit read from uninitialized memory
> (ffff88001b0bb800)
> 00b00b1b0088ffff0000000000000000cafe1dea20009b0000299a3100000000
>  u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u
>  ^
> 
> Pid: 1511, comm: udevd Not tainted 2.6.39-rc3 #1 Acer,Inc. Aspire 1510  /Aspire
> 1510
> RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff810c2f0c>]  [<ffffffff810c2f0c>]
> __kmalloc_track_caller+0xbc/0x1d0
> RSP: 0018:ffff88001d3a7a18  EFLAGS: 00010246
> RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000010 RCX: 000000000000284f
> RDX: 000000000000284e RSI: ffff88001fe5b160 RDI: ffffffff8177e39a
> RBP: ffff88001d3a7a48 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: ffff88001b931100
> R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000003 R12: ffff88001b0bb800
> R13: ffff88001f803840 R14: 00000000000004d0 R15: ffffffff814769c6
> FS:  00007f6ee81f1700(0000) GS:ffffffff81a1b000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
> CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
> CR2: ffff88001d0b3938 CR3: 000000001d38b000 CR4: 00000000000006f0
> DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
> DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff4ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
>  [<ffffffff8147ccf2>] __alloc_skb+0x72/0x190
>  [<ffffffff814769c6>] sock_alloc_send_pskb+0x236/0x3a0
>  [<ffffffff81476b40>] sock_alloc_send_skb+0x10/0x20
>  [<ffffffff81523c18>] unix_dgram_sendmsg+0x298/0x770
>  [<ffffffff814715f3>] sock_sendmsg+0xe3/0x110
>  [<ffffffff81472603>] sys_sendmsg+0x243/0x3c0
>  [<ffffffff815e7238>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
>  [<ffffffffffffffff>] 0xffffffffffffffff

hum.  I wonder if kmemcheck is disliking prefetchw()?
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