Re: [PATCH] Ensure nodeinfo struct is initialized to zero

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On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 11:12:03AM -0700, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 01/23/2013 11:02 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 05:06:35PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> >>> +    memset(nodeinfo, 0, sizeof(nodeinfo));
> >>> +
> >>
> >> Of course i meant   sizeof(*nodeinfo)
> > 
> > Yikes.  Doesn't libvirt have some type of VIR_* macro to either catch
> > that error systematically or to allocate pre-cleared memory?
> 
> VIR_MALLOC guarantees pre-cleared memory, but in this case, nodeinfo was
> passed in by the caller rather than something that we control directly.

Of course there are plenty of places where we stack allocate
stuff which we then memset(), so I believe a VIR_ZERO is worth
while


Daniel
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