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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 2/2] xenmon: initialise dummy array



On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 04:26:25PM +0000, Ian Campbell wrote:
> This is just used to expand the shared backing file to the expected
> size (whether this is actually necessary I'm not sure). Rather than
> leaking some small amount of the processes' heap set the array to
> zeroes.
> 
> While at it add a check that the malloc succeeded before using the
> result.
> 
> Compile tested only.
> 
> CID: 1056095 (use of uninitialised data)
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
>  tools/xenmon/xenbaked.c | 5 +++++
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/xenmon/xenbaked.c b/tools/xenmon/xenbaked.c
> index 782f0c1..3d9e0ed 100644
> --- a/tools/xenmon/xenbaked.c
> +++ b/tools/xenmon/xenbaked.c
> @@ -663,6 +663,11 @@ static void alloc_qos_data(int ncpu)
>      }
>      pgsize = getpagesize();
>      dummy = malloc(pgsize);
> +    if (!dummy) {
> +        PERROR("malloc");
> +        exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
> +    }
> +    memset(dummy, 0, pgsize);
>  
>      for (n=0; n<ncpu; n++) {
>  
> -- 
> 2.1.4
> 

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