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

[Stefan Roese]

On 21.09.2017 19:03, Heinrich Schuchardt wrote:
> 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;
> 

Reviewed-by: Stefan Roese <sr at denx.de>

Thanks,
Stefan