[PATCH] l2_packet: Fix valgrind uninitialised byte(s) error messages

[Masashi Honma]

2015-02-07 23:58 GMT+09:00 Jouni Malinen <j at w1.fi>:

> On Sat, Feb 07, 2015 at 01:41:34PM +0200, Jouni Malinen wrote:
> > It looks like adding just two bytes to the sockaddr_ll buffer is enough
> > to make valgrind not complain. I'm not sure how padding could really
> > cause this, though, taken into account how valgrind code for this is
> > implemented in pre_mem_read_sockaddr(). That implementation is not aware
> > of sockaddr_ll (maybe it would be a good idea to make it aware of
> > that..), but it seems to be checking the area following sa_family (i.e.,
> > sll_family in sockaddr_ll) in a way that should not go beyond the
> > 20-byte buffer regardless of how the fields are padded.
>
> Well.. I was obviously looking at the trunk version of Valgrind rather
> than 3.10.0 that is used in Ubuntu 14.10. This was indeed broken and
> fixed after that release:
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=342221
>
> I confirmed that the issue does not show up with the current Valgrind
> trunk snapshot. As such, I'm dropping this l2_packet patch since this
> was caused by a Valgrind bug that has already been fixed (but not yet
> included in a formal release).
>

Thank you and sorry for false report.
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