On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 03:02:53PM +0100, Jim Meyering wrote: > While reviewing unrelated changes, I spotted a short memset: > > char **names; > ... > memset(names, 0, maxnames); > > That zeros out 1/4 or 1/8 of the memory than it should. > It should be doing this: > > memset(names, 0, maxnames * sizeof (*names)); > > I checked all memset uses and found a total of 6 uses like that. > This fixes them: ACK to this immediate fix. As per my other mail we should consider adding a VIR_ZERO() macro for this, to avoid such errors recurring Daniel -- |: Red Hat, Engineering, London -o- http://people.redhat.com/berrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org -o- http://ovirt.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: GnuPG: 7D3B9505 -o- F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 :| -- Libvir-list mailing list Libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list