got the report below - config attached. This is probably bitfield initialization related. tip-072062d5. Ingo -----------------> kmemcheck: Caught 32-bit read from uninitialized memory (f6038ec0) 0000000000000000d0e86bc0d0fa6bc070446cc060fa6bc0205c71c0103772c0 u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u ^ Pid: 0, comm: swapper Tainted: G W (2.6.27-rc7-tip-00980-g072062d-dirty #37099) System Product Name EIP: 0060:[] EFLAGS: 00010282 CPU: 0 EIP is at sk_clone+0x26/0x1d0 EAX: f6038d80 EBX: f6038d80 ECX: 00000020 EDX: c0ac19c0 ESI: f6038000 EDI: f6038d80 EBP: c0b67d54 ESP: c0b860e8 DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 0000 SS: 0068 CR0: 8005003b CR2: f6015800 CR3: 36105000 CR4: 00000680 DR0: 00000000 DR1: 00000000 DR2: 00000000 DR3: 00000000 DR6: ffff4ff0 DR7: 00000400 [] inet_csk_clone+0x1a/0x90 [] tcp_create_openreq_child+0x1a/0x3a0 [] tcp_v4_syn_recv_sock+0x3f/0x1c0 [] tcp_check_req+0x283/0x450 [] tcp_v4_do_rcv+0x261/0x360 [] tcp_v4_rcv+0x5d4/0x6b0 [] ip_local_deliver+0x6c/0x1a0 [] ip_rcv+0x2e5/0x5a0 [] netif_receive_skb+0x3f1/0x480 [] nv_napi_poll+0x38f/0x670 [] net_rx_action+0x129/0x1b0 [] __do_softirq+0x82/0x100 [] call_on_stack+0x15/0x30 [] 0xffffffff