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* [Powertop] [PATCH] prevent jump on uninitialized value
@ 2012-06-27  8:17 Sergey Senozhatsky
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From: Sergey Senozhatsky @ 2012-06-27  8:17 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: powertop

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workload is getting 'initialized' with stack garbage,
so later conditional check of !workload[0] in report()
is invalid.

Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky(a)gmail.com>

---

 src/main.cpp | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/main.cpp b/src/main.cpp
index d8e2a47..7a1b976 100644
--- a/src/main.cpp
+++ b/src/main.cpp
@@ -356,7 +356,7 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
 	int c;
 	bool wantreport = FALSE;
 	char filename[4096];
-	char workload[4096];
+	char workload[4096] = {0,};
 	int  iterations = 1;
 
 #ifndef DISABLE_TRYCATCH


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* Re: [Powertop] [PATCH] prevent jump on uninitialized value
@ 2012-06-27 18:20 Chris Ferron
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Chris Ferron @ 2012-06-27 18:20 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: powertop

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patch applied
Thanks
-C

On 06/27/2012 01:17 AM, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> workload is getting 'initialized' with stack garbage,
> so later conditional check of !workload[0] in report()
> is invalid.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky(a)gmail.com>
>
> ---
>
>   src/main.cpp | 2 +-
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/src/main.cpp b/src/main.cpp
> index d8e2a47..7a1b976 100644
> --- a/src/main.cpp
> +++ b/src/main.cpp
> @@ -356,7 +356,7 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
>   	int c;
>   	bool wantreport = FALSE;
>   	char filename[4096];
> -	char workload[4096];
> +	char workload[4096] = {0,};
>   	int  iterations = 1;
>   
>   #ifndef DISABLE_TRYCATCH
>



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