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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