Re: WARNING in rfkill_alloc

From: Dmitry Vyukov
Date: Mon Jan 15 2018 - 07:12:09 EST


On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 1:01 PM, Johannes Berg
<johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, 2018-01-15 at 10:12 +0100, Dmitry Vyukov wrote:
>
>> However, there can be some surprising things, for example, executing
>> one ioctl/setsockopt with data meant for another one, or these
>> 0xffffffffffffffff are actually mean 0 (for involved reasons),
>
> I think those fff was actually what was throwing me off.
>
>> or we
>> can simply have bugs in these descriptions so they don't match C
>> structures and then all data is messed/shifted.
>
> No, I think this part was OK.
>
>> If this representation does not make sense to you right away, your
>> best bet is looking at/running the C reproducer where you can see true
>> data layout:
>>
>>
> [...]
> Yeah, good point, I should've just done that.
>
>> > Ah, then again, now I see the fault injection - I guess dev_set_name()
>> > just failed and we didn't check the return value, will fix that.
>>
>> Yes, it's highly likely the root cause. The raw.log file shows there
>> there was an immediately preceding fault in kmalloc in the same
>> process, in a close stack.
>
> Yep, I submitted the fix now (with the correct reported-by).
>
> Also for the other one, the wiphy_register() warning.

Thanks!