When flushing, 'buffer' is not written to prior to checking its first byte's value. Therefore it needs to be initialized upon declaration. Fixes: 09cb517949e69 ("xtables-restore: Improve performance of --noflush operation") Signed-off-by: Phil Sutter <phil@xxxxxx> --- iptables/xtables-restore.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/iptables/xtables-restore.c b/iptables/xtables-restore.c index dd907e0b8ddd5..63cc15cee9621 100644 --- a/iptables/xtables-restore.c +++ b/iptables/xtables-restore.c @@ -281,7 +281,7 @@ void xtables_restore_parse(struct nft_handle *h, const struct nft_xt_restore_parse *p) { struct nft_xt_restore_state state = {}; - char preload_buffer[PREBUFSIZ] = {}, buffer[10240], *ptr; + char preload_buffer[PREBUFSIZ] = {}, buffer[10240] = {}, *ptr; if (!h->noflush) { nft_fake_cache(h); -- 2.24.0