[PATCH 2/6] perf evlist: fix use of uninitialized variable

From: David Ahern
Date: Tue Jul 02 2013 - 15:40:37 EST


Fixes valgrind complaint:
==1870== Syscall param write(buf) points to uninitialised byte(s)
==1870== at 0x4E3F5B0: __write_nocancel (in /lib64/libpthread-2.14.90.so)
==1870== by 0x449D7C: perf_evlist__start_workload (evlist.c:846)
==1870== by 0x427BC1: cmd_record (builtin-record.c:561)
==1870== by 0x419D72: run_builtin (perf.c:319)
==1870== by 0x4195F2: main (perf.c:376)
==1870== Address 0x7feffcdd7 is on thread 1's stack

Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/perf/util/evlist.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/evlist.c b/tools/perf/util/evlist.c
index 4a901be..d8f34e0 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/evlist.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/evlist.c
@@ -838,7 +838,7 @@ out_close_ready_pipe:
int perf_evlist__start_workload(struct perf_evlist *evlist)
{
if (evlist->workload.cork_fd > 0) {
- char bf;
+ char bf = 0;
int ret;
/*
* Remove the cork, let it rip!
--
1.7.10.1

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