It's preferable to initialize structs to a deterministic state. Signed-off-by: Daniel Xu <dxu@xxxxxxxxx> --- fs/xattr.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/fs/xattr.c b/fs/xattr.c index 90dd78f0eb27..92b324c265d2 100644 --- a/fs/xattr.c +++ b/fs/xattr.c @@ -821,6 +821,7 @@ struct simple_xattr *simple_xattr_alloc(const void *value, size_t size) if (!new_xattr) return NULL; + new_xattr->name = NULL; new_xattr->size = size; memcpy(new_xattr->value, value, size); return new_xattr; -- 2.21.1
