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

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Message-ID: <4DAE901C.2090809@cs.helsinki.fi>
Date:	Wed, 20 Apr 2011 10:49:48 +0300
From:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
To:	casteyde.christian@...e.fr
CC:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, bugzilla-daemon@...zilla.kernel.org,
	bugme-daemon@...zilla.kernel.org,
	Vegard Nossum <vegardno@....uio.no>
Subject: Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 33502] New: Caught 64-bit read from uninitialized
 memory in __alloc_skb

On 4/20/11 10:45 AM, casteyde.christian@...e.fr wrote:
> Indeed I can reproduce each time I boot, however I didn't managed to apply the
> patch to test it on -rc3 (neither -rc4), only the first hunk passed.

That's odd. Eric?

> I simply boot on this laptop with kmemcheck activated to get the warning, with
> vanilla -rc3. I've also tested -rc4 yersterday (without the patch therefore),
> the warning was not the same (it's a bit later, I will post the dmesg output on
> bugzilla tonight).

That's expected. You're unlikely to see the problem in the exact same 
place across different kernel configs and versions.

			Pekka
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