[PATCH] Initialize nscd stats data [BZ #17892]

Andreas Schwab schwab@suse.de
Wed Jan 28 11:22:00 GMT 2015


Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@redhat.com> writes:

> nscd stats data that is sent from the daemon to the binary invoked with
> 'nscd -g' does not always initialize selinux data.  Valgrind complains
> about it, so just initialize the entire struct once to get rid of that
> warning.  I haven't done a full analysis of the code changed, but the
> net change in the code size of the send_stats function is just 2
> bytes.  The valgrind warning:

I don't think this has anything to do with selinux data, it's just
complaining about uninitialised padding bytes, doesn't it?

Andreas.

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