Sergei Trofimovich reports 'uninitialized bytes' warnings from nftables: Syscall param sendmsg(msg.msg_iov[0]) points to uninitialised byte(s) at 0x55B9EFB: sendmsg (in /lib64/libc-2.25.so) by 0x43E658: mnl_nft_socket_sendmsg (mnl.c:239) by 0x43E658: mnl_batch_talk (mnl.c:254) by 0x407898: nft_netlink (libnftables.c:58) by 0x407898: nft_run (libnftables.c:96) by 0x407CD5: nft_run_cmd_from_buffer (libnftables.c:291) by 0x406EDE: main (main.c:274) This is harmless, the uninitialized memory is the padding that sometimes needs to be inserted between end of an attribute and the beginning of the new attribute. Zero it to silence memory sanitizer output. Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@xxxxxxxxx> --- src/attr.c | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/src/attr.c b/src/attr.c index 4f131874c11e..0359ba959d7a 100644 --- a/src/attr.c +++ b/src/attr.c @@ -412,10 +412,15 @@ void mnl_attr_put(struct nlmsghdr *nlh, uint16_t type, size_t len, { struct nlattr *attr = mnl_nlmsg_get_payload_tail(nlh); uint16_t payload_len = MNL_ALIGN(sizeof(struct nlattr)) + len; + int pad; attr->nla_type = type; attr->nla_len = payload_len; memcpy(mnl_attr_get_payload(attr), data, len); + pad = MNL_ALIGN(len) - len; + if (pad > 0) + memset(mnl_attr_get_payload(attr) + len, 0, pad); + nlh->nlmsg_len += MNL_ALIGN(payload_len); } -- 2.16.1 -- 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