[PATCH for-4.9 v3 2/3] xen/livepatch: Use zeroed memory allocations for arrays

[Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>]

Each of these arrays is sparse.  Use zeroed allocations to cause uninitialised
array elements to contain deterministic values, most importantly for the
embedded pointers.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
---
CC: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
CC: Ross Lagerwall <ross.lagerwall@citrix.com>

* new in v3
---
 xen/common/livepatch.c     | 4 ++--
 xen/common/livepatch_elf.c | 4 ++--
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/xen/common/livepatch.c b/xen/common/livepatch.c
index df67a1a..66d532d 100644
--- a/xen/common/livepatch.c
+++ b/xen/common/livepatch.c
@@ -771,8 +771,8 @@ static int build_symbol_table(struct payload *payload,
         }
     }
 
-    symtab = xmalloc_array(struct livepatch_symbol, nsyms);
-    strtab = xmalloc_array(char, strtab_len);
+    symtab = xzalloc_array(struct livepatch_symbol, nsyms);
+    strtab = xzalloc_array(char, strtab_len);
 
     if ( !strtab || !symtab )
     {
diff --git a/xen/common/livepatch_elf.c b/xen/common/livepatch_elf.c
index c4a9633..b69e271 100644
--- a/xen/common/livepatch_elf.c
+++ b/xen/common/livepatch_elf.c
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ static int elf_resolve_sections(struct livepatch_elf *elf, const void *data)
     int rc;
 
     /* livepatch_elf_load sanity checked e_shnum. */
-    sec = xmalloc_array(struct livepatch_elf_sec, elf->hdr->e_shnum);
+    sec = xzalloc_array(struct livepatch_elf_sec, elf->hdr->e_shnum);
     if ( !sec )
     {
         dprintk(XENLOG_ERR, LIVEPATCH"%s: Could not allocate memory for section table!\n",
@@ -225,7 +225,7 @@ static int elf_get_sym(struct livepatch_elf *elf, const void *data)
     /* No need to check values as elf_resolve_sections did it. */
     nsym = symtab_sec->sec->sh_size / symtab_sec->sec->sh_entsize;
 
-    sym = xmalloc_array(struct livepatch_elf_sym, nsym);
+    sym = xzalloc_array(struct livepatch_elf_sym, nsym);
     if ( !sym )
     {
         dprintk(XENLOG_ERR, LIVEPATCH "%s: Could not allocate memory for symbols\n",
-- 
2.1.4


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