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| author | Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> | 2009-09-21 17:03:50 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2009-09-22 07:17:42 -0700 |
| commit | 425fbf047cc70bb30dff368a6da02c8c2d229318 (patch) | |
| tree | 7e71fc7a73c799debba250998ab3b3f56c124e90 /mm | |
| parent | 6e17b17f1fc7b2f24383a693d63550d9e1460081 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-425fbf047cc70bb30dff368a6da02c8c2d229318.tar.gz lwn-425fbf047cc70bb30dff368a6da02c8c2d229318.zip | |
shmem: initialize struct shmem_sb_info to zero
Fixes the following kmemcheck false positive (the compiler is using
a 32-bit mov to load the 16-bit sbinfo->mode in shmem_fill_super):
[ 0.337000] Total of 1 processors activated (3088.38 BogoMIPS).
[ 0.352000] CPU0 attaching NULL sched-domain.
[ 0.360000] WARNING: kmemcheck: Caught 32-bit read from uninitialized
memory (9f8020fc)
[ 0.361000]
a44240820000000041f6998100000000000000000000000000000000ff030000
[ 0.368000] i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i u u u u i i i i i i i i i i u
u
[ 0.375000] ^
[ 0.376000]
[ 0.377000] Pid: 9, comm: khelper Not tainted (2.6.31-tip #206) P4DC6
[ 0.378000] EIP: 0060:[<810a3a95>] EFLAGS: 00010246 CPU: 0
[ 0.379000] EIP is at shmem_fill_super+0xb5/0x120
[ 0.380000] EAX: 00000000 EBX: 9f845400 ECX: 824042a4 EDX: 8199f641
[ 0.381000] ESI: 9f8020c0 EDI: 9f845400 EBP: 9f81af68 ESP: 81cd6eec
[ 0.382000] DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 0000 SS: 0068
[ 0.383000] CR0: 8005003b CR2: 9f806200 CR3: 01ccd000 CR4: 000006d0
[ 0.384000] DR0: 00000000 DR1: 00000000 DR2: 00000000 DR3: 00000000
[ 0.385000] DR6: ffff4ff0 DR7: 00000400
[ 0.386000] [<810c25fc>] get_sb_nodev+0x3c/0x80
[ 0.388000] [<810a3514>] shmem_get_sb+0x14/0x20
[ 0.390000] [<810c207f>] vfs_kern_mount+0x4f/0x120
[ 0.392000] [<81b2849e>] init_tmpfs+0x7e/0xb0
[ 0.394000] [<81b11597>] do_basic_setup+0x17/0x30
[ 0.396000] [<81b11907>] kernel_init+0x57/0xa0
[ 0.398000] [<810039b7>] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10
[ 0.400000] [<ffffffff>] 0xffffffff
[ 0.402000] khelper used greatest stack depth: 2820 bytes left
[ 0.407000] calling init_mmap_min_addr+0x0/0x10 @ 1
[ 0.408000] initcall init_mmap_min_addr+0x0/0x10 returned 0 after 0 usecs
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Analysed-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/shmem.c | 5 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/mm/shmem.c b/mm/shmem.c index b4b56fd1e772..b206a7a32e2a 100644 --- a/mm/shmem.c +++ b/mm/shmem.c @@ -2309,17 +2309,14 @@ int shmem_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, void *data, int silent) int err = -ENOMEM; /* Round up to L1_CACHE_BYTES to resist false sharing */ - sbinfo = kmalloc(max((int)sizeof(struct shmem_sb_info), + sbinfo = kzalloc(max((int)sizeof(struct shmem_sb_info), L1_CACHE_BYTES), GFP_KERNEL); if (!sbinfo) return -ENOMEM; - sbinfo->max_blocks = 0; - sbinfo->max_inodes = 0; sbinfo->mode = S_IRWXUGO | S_ISVTX; sbinfo->uid = current_fsuid(); sbinfo->gid = current_fsgid(); - sbinfo->mpol = NULL; sb->s_fs_info = sbinfo; #ifdef CONFIG_TMPFS |