Bug 42202 - Caught 64-bit read from uninitialized memory in kmem_cache_alloc
Summary: Caught 64-bit read from uninitialized memory in kmem_cache_alloc
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 36512
Alias: None
Product: Memory Management
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Page Allocator (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: P1 normal
Assignee: Andrew Morton
URL:
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Blocks: 40982
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Reported: 2011-09-01 17:14 UTC by Christian Casteyde
Modified: 2012-04-22 15:36 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Kernel Version: 3.1-rc4
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Regression: Yes
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Description Christian Casteyde 2011-09-01 17:14:57 UTC
Acer Aspire 7750G
Core i7 in 64bits mode
Slackware64 13.37
kmemcheck configured

Since 3.1-rc4, I have the following warning at boot:

udev[1745]: renamed network interface eth0 to eth1
udev[1699]: renamed network interface wlan0-eth0 to eth0
WARNING: kmemcheck: Caught 64-bit read from uninitialized memory (ffff8801c11865d0)
000110000000adde000220000000addee06d18c10188ffff403d27c20188ffff
 f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u
                                 ^

Pid: 1700, comm: udevd Tainted: G        W   3.1.0-rc4 #13 Acer Aspire 7750G/JE70_HR
RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff8111aea6>]  [<ffffffff8111aea6>] kmem_cache_alloc+0x66/0x120
RSP: 0018:ffff8801c2103b38  EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff8801c23f6d10 RCX: 0000000000062720
RDX: 0000000000062718 RSI: 00000000001d43a0 RDI: 00000000000000d0
RBP: ffff8801c2103b68 R08: ffff8801c2109300 R09: 0000000000000001
R10: ffff8801c2109300 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff8801c11865d0
R13: ffff8801c7414400 R14: 00000000000000d0 R15: ffffffff8110519f
FS:  00007fec4c108720(0000) GS:ffff8801c7800000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: ffff8801c604a0b0 CR3: 00000001c20f9000 CR4: 00000000000406f0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff4ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
 [<ffffffff8110519f>] anon_vma_prepare+0x5f/0x190
 [<ffffffff810fb0b6>] handle_pte_fault+0x576/0x790
 [<ffffffff810fc5ff>] handle_mm_fault+0x11f/0x1c0
 [<ffffffff810575d2>] do_page_fault+0x142/0x490
 [<ffffffff817db57f>] page_fault+0x1f/0x30
 [<ffffffff811858a0>] sysfs_read_file+0xf0/0x1a0
 [<ffffffff8112166a>] vfs_read+0xaa/0x160
 [<ffffffff81121768>] sys_read+0x48/0x90
 [<ffffffff817dbabb>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
 [<ffffffffffffffff>] 0xffffffffffffffff
Adding 2097148k swap on /dev/sda1.  Priority:-1 extents:1 across:2097148k 
EXT4-fs (sda2): re-mounted. Opts: (null)

I do not know if it occurs with previous rc of 3.1, but I don't have it with 3.0.
Comment 1 Christian Casteyde 2012-04-22 15:36:55 UTC
Maybe a duplicate of https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36512.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 36512 ***

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