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authorAlexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>2022-11-07 15:22:55 +0100
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>2022-11-08 15:57:25 -0800
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docs: kmsan: fix formatting of "Example report"
Add a blank line to make the sentence before the list render as a separate paragraph, not a definition. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221107142255.4038811-1-glider@google.com Fixes: 93858ae70cf4 ("kmsan: add ReST documentation") Signed-off-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com> Suggested-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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@@ -67,6 +67,7 @@ uninitialized in the local variable, as well as the stack where the value was
copied to another memory location before use.
A use of uninitialized value ``v`` is reported by KMSAN in the following cases:
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- in a condition, e.g. ``if (v) { ... }``;
- in an indexing or pointer dereferencing, e.g. ``array[v]`` or ``*v``;
- when it is copied to userspace or hardware, e.g. ``copy_to_user(..., &v, ...)``;