On Monday, February 3, 2020 4:31 PM, Phil Sutter <phil@xxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Feb 03, 2020 at 01:54:31PM +0000, dyslexicatheist wrote: > > I guess this is the typical "problem" situation in which userspace uses > a non-zeroed buffer to feed into sendto() and due to padding not > every byte was written to. So basically userspace "leaks" garbage to > kernel, which is something I'd consider harmless and merely a minor > inconvenience when analyzing with valgrind. I usually suffer from this > as well since libmnl()'s allocation routines don't zero the buffer > either. > > In your case, I'd say the error message disappears if you add > 'memset(&u, 0, sizeof(u))' to the beginning of nfq_set_mode(). thanks for your help Phil. I have just tried this but unfortunately it didn't change the outcome. Also tried other variations such as memset'ing both &u and the ¶ms struct, but nada. > > Cheers, Phil
