Re: [PATCH] depmod: always initialize "deps" in mod_get_all_sorted_dependencies()

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On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 9:20 PM, Cristian Rodríguez
<crrodriguez@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Fixed Coverity CID #48861
> ---

Is there anything being really fixed here?

>  tools/depmod.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/tools/depmod.c b/tools/depmod.c
> index e90ff83..bcefa09 100644
> --- a/tools/depmod.c
> +++ b/tools/depmod.c
> @@ -1798,14 +1798,14 @@ static int mod_fill_all_unique_dependencies(const struct mod *mod, const struct
>
>  static const struct mod **mod_get_all_sorted_dependencies(const struct mod *mod, size_t *n_deps)
>  {
> -       const struct mod **deps;
> +       const struct mod **deps = NULL;

you are assigning deps to the return of malloc below.

>         size_t last = 0;
>
>         *n_deps = mod_count_all_dependencies(mod);
>         if (*n_deps == 0)
>                 return NULL;
>
> -       deps = malloc(sizeof(struct mod *) * (*n_deps));
> +       deps = calloc(1, sizeof(struct mod *) * (*n_deps));

and we are supposed to fill n_deps in
mod_fill_all_unique_dependencies() so there's no point in initializing
them to 0 here.

-- 

Lucas De Marchi
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