x86, pat: Proper init of memtype subtree_max_end
authorVenkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com>
Fri, 11 Jun 2010 00:45:01 +0000 (17:45 -0700)
committerH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Fri, 11 Jun 2010 21:12:22 +0000 (14:12 -0700)
subtree_max_end that was recently added to struct memtype was not getting
properly initialized resulting in

WARNING: kmemcheck: Caught 64-bit read from uninitialized memory
in memtype_rb_augment_cb()
reported here
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16092

This change fixes the problem.

Reported-by: Christian Casteyde <casteyde.christian@free.fr>
Tested-by: Christian Casteyde <casteyde.christian@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com>
LKML-Reference: <1276217101-11515-1-git-send-email-venki@google.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
arch/x86/mm/pat.c
arch/x86/mm/pat_rbtree.c

index acc15b23b74342df6188d0fd0e7b356e1530e8bb..64121a18b8cb33902b6161435136aa86b619a152 100644 (file)
@@ -302,7 +302,7 @@ int reserve_memtype(u64 start, u64 end, unsigned long req_type,
                return -EINVAL;
        }
 
-       new  = kmalloc(sizeof(struct memtype), GFP_KERNEL);
+       new  = kzalloc(sizeof(struct memtype), GFP_KERNEL);
        if (!new)
                return -ENOMEM;
 
index f537087bb740933d5d412c619bb3d5107b53c3b0..f20eeec85a862c7dd044e15993aac3cd8c13214c 100644 (file)
@@ -226,6 +226,7 @@ int rbt_memtype_check_insert(struct memtype *new, unsigned long *ret_type)
                if (ret_type)
                        new->type = *ret_type;
 
+               new->subtree_max_end = new->end;
                memtype_rb_insert(&memtype_rbroot, new);
        }
        return err;