From 1ecc281ec2f52d715dfc8cb67b6820ea813b9e52 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de> Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2016 21:50:23 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] netfilter: x_tables: suppress kmemcheck warning Markus Trippelsdorf reports: WARNING: kmemcheck: Caught 64-bit read from uninitialized memory (ffff88001e605480) 4055601e0088ffff000000000000000090686d81ffffffff0000000000000000 u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u i i i i i i i i u u u u u u u u ^ |RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff8166e561>] [<ffffffff8166e561>] nf_register_net_hook+0x51/0x160 [..] [<ffffffff8166e561>] nf_register_net_hook+0x51/0x160 [<ffffffff8166eaaf>] nf_register_net_hooks+0x3f/0xa0 [<ffffffff816d6715>] ipt_register_table+0xe5/0x110 [..] This warning is harmless; we copy 'uninitialized' data from the hook ops but it will not be used. Long term the structures keeping run-time data should be disentangled from those only containing config-time data (such as where in the list to insert a hook), but thats -next material. Reported-by: Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@trippelsdorf.de> Suggested-by: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de> Acked-by: Aaron Conole <aconole@bytheb.org> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> --- net/netfilter/x_tables.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/netfilter/x_tables.c b/net/netfilter/x_tables.c index e0aa7c1d02241..fc4977456c30e 100644 --- a/net/netfilter/x_tables.c +++ b/net/netfilter/x_tables.c @@ -1513,7 +1513,7 @@ xt_hook_ops_alloc(const struct xt_table *table, nf_hookfn *fn) if (!num_hooks) return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL); - ops = kmalloc(sizeof(*ops) * num_hooks, GFP_KERNEL); + ops = kcalloc(num_hooks, sizeof(*ops), GFP_KERNEL); if (ops == NULL) return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM); -- 2.30.2