When using mnl_nlmsg_put_extra_header() it pads out the addtional header but only zeros the original size not the padded value. Which cause valgrind to complain about sendto() with unitialized byte. --- a/src/nlmsg.c +++ b/src/nlmsg.c @@ -105,8 +105,9 @@ void * mnl_nlmsg_put_extra_header(struct nlmsghdr *nlh, size_t size) { char *ptr = (char *)nlh + nlh->nlmsg_len; - nlh->nlmsg_len += MNL_ALIGN(size); - memset(ptr, 0, size); + size_t len = MNL_ALIGN(size); + nlh->nlmsg_len += len; + memset(ptr, 0, len); return ptr; } EXPORT_SYMBOL(mnl_nlmsg_put_extra_header); -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html