From a98b65a3ad71e702e760bc63f57684301628e837 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vegard Nossum Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 14:46:57 +0100 Subject: net: annotate struct sock bitfield 2009/2/24 Ingo Molnar : > ok, this is the last warning i have from today's overnight -tip > testruns - a 32-bit system warning in sock_init_data(): > > [ 2.610389] NET: Registered protocol family 16 > [ 2.616138] initcall netlink_proto_init+0x0/0x170 returned 0 after 7812 usecs > [ 2.620010] WARNING: kmemcheck: Caught 32-bit read from uninitialized memory (f642c184) > [ 2.624002] 010000000200000000000000604990c000000000000000000000000000000000 > [ 2.634076] i i i i i i u u i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i > [ 2.641038] ^ > [ 2.643376] > [ 2.644004] Pid: 1, comm: swapper Not tainted (2.6.29-rc6-tip-01751-g4d1c22c-dirty #885) > [ 2.648003] EIP: 0060:[] EFLAGS: 00010282 CPU: 0 > [ 2.652008] EIP is at sock_init_data+0xa1/0x190 > [ 2.656003] EAX: 0001a800 EBX: f6836c00 ECX: 00463000 EDX: c0e46fe0 > [ 2.660003] ESI: f642c180 EDI: c0b83088 EBP: f6863ed8 ESP: c0c412ec > [ 2.664003] DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 00e0 SS: 0068 > [ 2.668003] CR0: 8005003b CR2: f682c400 CR3: 00b91000 CR4: 000006f0 > [ 2.672003] DR0: 00000000 DR1: 00000000 DR2: 00000000 DR3: 00000000 > [ 2.676003] DR6: ffff4ff0 DR7: 00000400 > [ 2.680002] [] __netlink_create+0x35/0xa0 > [ 2.684002] [] netlink_kernel_create+0x4c/0x140 > [ 2.688002] [] rtnetlink_net_init+0x1e/0x40 > [ 2.696002] [] register_pernet_operations+0x11/0x30 > [ 2.700002] [] register_pernet_subsys+0x1c/0x30 > [ 2.704002] [] rtnetlink_init+0x4c/0x100 > [ 2.708002] [] netlink_proto_init+0x159/0x170 > [ 2.712002] [] do_one_initcall+0x24/0x150 > [ 2.716002] [] do_initcalls+0x27/0x40 > [ 2.723201] [] do_basic_setup+0x1c/0x20 > [ 2.728002] [] kernel_init+0x5a/0xa0 > [ 2.732002] [] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10 > [ 2.736002] [] 0xffffffff We fix this false positive by annotating the bitfield in struct sock. Reported-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum --- net/core/sock.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) (limited to 'net/core') diff --git a/net/core/sock.c b/net/core/sock.c index 7dbf3ff..ce72c0a 100644 --- a/net/core/sock.c +++ b/net/core/sock.c @@ -941,6 +941,8 @@ static struct sock *sk_prot_alloc(struct proto *prot, gfp_t priority, sk = kmalloc(prot->obj_size, priority); if (sk != NULL) { + kmemcheck_annotate_bitfield(sk, flags); + if (security_sk_alloc(sk, family, priority)) goto out_free; -- cgit v1.1