On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 08:46:37AM +0200, Vegard Nossum wrote: > 2009/8/21 Bob Copeland <me@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > > WARNING: kmemcheck: Caught 32-bit read from freed memory (f34a443c) > > eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee008a06f700011000 > > a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a f f f f f f f f > > > > I think that is list_empty() here where %eax is list_head > > and event_list->next is the read location... which definitely > > doesn't look like a pointer, if I'm reading it correctly. > > I think f34a443c is a valid pointer. On my machine, at least: I meant list->next, which was 00100100 here. (By the way, my first time using kmemcheck, very nice tool!) [race condition explanation snipped] > I think that's it. Any thoughts? I put Eric Paris on Cc. Thanks! With a fresh pull containing the fsnotify fix the kmemcheck warning is gone. So unless I see anything else I'll assume that this one is already fixed, sorry for the false alarm. -- Bob Copeland %% www.bobcopeland.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
