misc/94528: linprocfs /proc/memory reports wrong size for swap

Peter Verschoor peter.j.verschoor at gmail.com
Thu Mar 16 15:09:42 UTC 2006


>Number:         94528
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       linprocfs /proc/memory reports wrong size for swap
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Mar 16 15:09:12 GMT 2006
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Peter Verschoor
>Release:        5-stable
>Organization:
>Environment:
>Description:
uninitialized variables in sys/compat/linprocfs/linprocfs.c
function: linprocfs_domeminfo()  i and j are uninitialized

you call swap_pager_status(&i, &j);

swap_pager_status does
  *i += sp->sw_nblks;
  *j += sp->sw_used;
 but i and j contain random data

>How-To-Repeat:
top reports wrong size for swap
cat /proc/meminfo has wrong size

has been reported before as kern/31048
still shows as open
>Fix:
solution: initialize i and j to 0 in linprocfs.c before call
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:


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