[kmemcheck] read from uninitialized memory by netlink_broadcast?

From: Sitsofe Wheeler
Date: Tue Sep 23 2008 - 15:32:53 EST


While testing today's linux-tip I received a kmemcheck warning. Is this a spurious or already known report?

[ 14.183601] kmemcheck: Caught 32-bit read from uninitialized memory (f7021f14)
[ 14.183601] 0100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
[ 14.185062] i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i u u u u u u u u u u u u
[ 14.186453] ^
[ 14.186528]
[ 14.186595] Pid: 3, comm: ksoftirqd/0 Not tainted (2.6.27-rc7-tipskw-00756-g6522eab #6) 900
[ 14.186701] EIP: 0060:[<c034ca1f>] EFLAGS: 00000282 CPU: 0
[ 14.186787] EIP is at pskb_expand_head+0x9f/0x160
[ 14.186861] EAX: 00000080 EBX: f72c96c0 ECX: 00000036 EDX: f727f200
[ 14.186927] ESI: f7021f14 EDI: f727f294 EBP: f7099eb4 ESP: c0543a88
[ 14.187006] DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 0000 GS: 0000 SS: 0068
[ 14.187083] CR0: 8005003b CR2: f7305700 CR3: 00534000 CR4: 000006d0
[ 14.187162] DR0: 00000000 DR1: 00000000 DR2: 00000000 DR3: 00000000
[ 14.187241] DR6: ffff4ff0 DR7: 00000400
[ 14.187312] [<c0362ea8>] netlink_broadcast+0x68/0x370
[ 14.187432] [<c0365a4f>] genl_ctrl_event+0x30f/0x330
[ 14.187548] [<c0365fb6>] genl_register_mc_group+0xe6/0x140
[ 14.187666] [<c0515fdf>] genl_init+0x9f/0xe0
[ 14.187781] [<c010102f>] _stext+0x2f/0x160
[ 14.187893] [<c04f48e3>] kernel_init+0xc3/0x1a0
[ 14.187997] [<c010403b>] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10
[ 14.188114] [<ffffffff>] 0xffffffff


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