Initialize nscd stats data [BZ #17892]

The padding bytes in the statsdata struct are not initialized, due to
which valgrind throws a warning:

==11384== Memcheck, a memory error detector
==11384== Copyright (C) 2002-2012, and GNU GPL'd, by Julian Seward et al.
==11384== Using Valgrind-3.8.1 and LibVEX; rerun with -h for copyright info
==11384== Command: nscd -d
==11384==
Fri 25 Apr 2014 10:34:53 AM CEST - 11384: handle_request: request received (Version = 2) from PID 11396
Fri 25 Apr 2014 10:34:53 AM CEST - 11384:       GETSTAT
==11384== Thread 6:
==11384== Syscall param socketcall.sendto(msg) points to uninitialised byte(s)
==11384==    at 0x4E4ACDC: send (in /lib64/libpthread-2.12.so)
==11384==    by 0x11AF6B: send_stats (in /usr/sbin/nscd)
==11384==    by 0x112F75: nscd_run_worker (in /usr/sbin/nscd)
==11384==    by 0x4E439D0: start_thread (in /lib64/libpthread-2.12.so)
==11384==    by 0x599AB6C: clone (in /lib64/libc-2.12.so)
==11384==  Address 0x15708395 is on thread 6's stack

Fix the warning by initializing the structure.
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Siddhesh Poyarekar 2015-01-29 10:30:09 +05:30
parent 527de9e4e3
commit 3cb26316b4
3 changed files with 8 additions and 1 deletions

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2015-01-29 Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@redhat.com>
[BZ #17892]
* nscd/nscd_stat.c (send_stats): Initialize DATA.
2015-01-28 Martin Sebor <msebor@redhat.com>
* math/README.libm-test: Clarify. Add "How to read the test output."

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@ -94,6 +94,8 @@ send_stats (int fd, struct database_dyn dbs[lastdb])
struct statdata data;
int cnt;
memset (&data, 0, sizeof (data));
memcpy (data.version, compilation, sizeof (compilation));
data.debug_level = debug_level;
data.runtime = time (NULL) - start_time;