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

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Message-ID: <4DC91137.4030109@cs.helsinki.fi>
Date:	Tue, 10 May 2011 13:19:35 +0300
From:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
CC:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>, casteyde.christian@...e.fr,
	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 5/10/11 1:17 PM, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> Le mardi 10 mai 2011 à 13:03 +0300, Pekka Enberg a écrit :
>
>> Can't we fix the issue by putting kmemcheck_mark_initialized() to
>> set_freepointer()?
>
> This would solve kmemcheck problem, not DEBUG_PAGEALLOC

Oh, right. Christoph? We need to support DEBUG_PAGEALLOC with SLUB.
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