[Nouveau] [Bug 112201] Syscall param ioctl(generic) points to uninitialised byte(s)

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=112201

--- Comment #3 from Ilia Mirkin <imirkin at alum.mit.edu> ---
(In reply to stratus from comment #2)
> So this is not causing any problems, I suppose it's controlling the hardware
> by reading/writing to memory addresses provided by the kernel, and valgrind
> is giving a false positive, thank you for your rapid answer explaining
> things. I can look at some other things instead then.

Nope, the issue has nothing to do with that. It has to do with valgrind not
understanding how that ioctl() works. That specific one works by the kernel
filling in some data structures, but valgrind thinks that the ioctl is being
passed data. But that's not the case.

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