Re: [PATCH] fs:Fix kmemleak leak warning in getname_flags about working on unitialized memory
From: Eric Sandeen
Date: Thu Sep 01 2016 - 09:19:31 EST
On 8/4/16 8:57 AM, Al Viro wrote:
> Don't feed the troll. On all paths leading to that place we have
> result->name = kname;
> len = strncpy_from_user(kname, filename, EMBEDDED_NAME_MAX);
> or
> result->name = kname;
> len = strncpy_from_user(kname, filename, PATH_MAX);
> with failure exits taken if strncpy_from_user() returns an error, which means
> that the damn thing has already been copied into.
>
> FWIW, it looks a lot like buggered kmemcheck; as usual, he can't be bothered
> to mention which kernel version would it be (let alone how to reproduce it
> on the kernel in question), but IIRC davej had run into some instrumentation
> breakage lately.
The original report is in https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=120651
if anyone is interested in it.
-Eric
> Again, don't feed the troll - you are only inviting an "improved" version
> of that garbage, just as pointless.