From: Florian Westphal <f...@strlen.de>
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 <mar...@trippelsdorf.de>
Suggested-by: Al Viro <v...@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <f...@strlen.de>
Acked-by: Aaron Conole <acon...@bytheb.org>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pa...@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 e0aa7c1d0224..fc4977456c30 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);
--
2.1.4
