Re: kmemcheck detected possible information leak to userspace?

From: Pekka Enberg
Date: Tue Jul 01 2008 - 08:08:23 EST


Hi Andi,

"Vegard Nossum" <vegard.nossum@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>> But there is one thing I forgot: Is this memory initialized by DMA? If
>> so, the warning is bogus and I will go hide in shame.

On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 2:47 PM, Andi Kleen <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Yes it is.
>
> [btw that was something I noted during the initial review and was then
> ridiculed for]

Yes, you pointed that out but we sure as hell didn't ridicule you for
it. I even explicitly said that we're probably missing kmemcheck
annotations from other similar places as well (not just networking).
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