Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 27212] New: Warning kmemcheck: Caught 64-bitread from uninitialized memory in netlink_broadcast_filtered

[David Miller]

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2011 18:35:22 +0100

> Le vendredi 21 janvier 2011 à 09:49 +0200, Pekka Enberg a écrit :
> 
>> It actually looks like a bug in SLUB+kmemcheck. The 
>> kmemcheck_slab_alloc() call in slab_post_alloc_hook() should use ksize() 
>> instead of s->objsize. SLAB seems to do the right thing already. Anyone 
>> care to send a patch my way?
>> 
> 
> Hmm, what do you think of following patch ?
> 
> Thanks, and sorry for the delay.
> 
> [PATCH] slub: fix kmemcheck calls to match ksize() hints
> 
> Recent use of ksize() in network stack (commit ca44ac38 : net: don't
> reallocate skb->head unless the current one hasn't the needed extra size
> or is shared) triggers kmemcheck warnings, because ksize() can return
> more space than kmemcheck is aware of.
> 
> Pekka Enberg noticed SLAB+kmemcheck is doing the right thing, while SLUB
> +kmemcheck doesnt.
> 
> Bugzilla reference #27212
> 
> Reported-by: Christian Casteyde <casteyde.christian@xxxxxxx>
> Suggested-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@xxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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