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

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Date:	Wed, 20 Apr 2011 10:09:58 +0200
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
Cc:	casteyde.christian@...e.fr, 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

Le mercredi 20 avril 2011 à 10:49 +0300, Pekka Enberg a écrit :
> 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 dont know, my patches were linux-2.6 based, and I pull tree very
often ;)

> > 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.
> 

Christian, please send us your .config

Thanks


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