[U-Boot] [PATCH 1/1] GPT: incomplete initialization in allocate_disk_part

Heinrich Schuchardt xypron.glpk at gmx.de
Thu Sep 21 17:03:06 UTC 2017


memset(newpart, '\0', sizeof(newpart));
only initializes the firest 4 or 8 bytes of *newpart and not the whole
structure disk_part.

We should use sizeof(struct disk_part).

Instead of malloc and memset we can use calloc.

Identified by cppcheck.

Fixes: 09a49930e41 GPT: read partition table from device into a data structure
Cc: Stefan Roese <sr at denx.de>
Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk at gmx.de>
---
v2
	use calloc as suggested by Stefan
---
 cmd/gpt.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/cmd/gpt.c b/cmd/gpt.c
index 638aa19826..d4406e3120 100644
--- a/cmd/gpt.c
+++ b/cmd/gpt.c
@@ -190,10 +190,9 @@ static void del_gpt_info(void)
 static struct disk_part *allocate_disk_part(disk_partition_t *info, int partnum)
 {
 	struct disk_part *newpart;
-	newpart = malloc(sizeof(*newpart));
+	newpart = calloc(1, sizeof(struct disk_part));
 	if (!newpart)
 		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
-	memset(newpart, '\0', sizeof(newpart));
 
 	newpart->gpt_part_info.start = info->start;
 	newpart->gpt_part_info.size = info->size;
-- 
2.11.0



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