[Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>]

On 2/10/2022 7:10 AM, madhuker.mythri@oracle.com wrote:
> From: Madhuker Mythri <madhuker.mythri@oracle.com>
> 
> Failsafe pmd started crashing with global devargs syntax as devargs is
> not memset to zero. Access it to in rte_devargs_parse resulted in a
> crash when called from secondary process.
> 
> Bugzilla Id: 933
> 
> Signed-off-by: Madhuker Mythri <madhuker.mythri@oracle.com>
> ---
>   drivers/net/failsafe/failsafe.c | 1 +
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/failsafe/failsafe.c b/drivers/net/failsafe/failsafe.c
> index 3c754a5f66..aa93cc6000 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/failsafe/failsafe.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/failsafe/failsafe.c
> @@ -360,6 +360,7 @@ rte_pmd_failsafe_probe(struct rte_vdev_device *vdev)
>   			if (sdev->devargs.name[0] == '\0')
>   				continue;
>   
> +			memset(&devargs, 0, sizeof(devargs));
>   			/* rebuild devargs to be able to get the bus name. */
>   			ret = rte_devargs_parse(&devargs,
>   						sdev->devargs.name);

if 'rte_devargs_parse()' requires 'devargs' parameter to be memset,
what do you think memset it in the API?
This prevents forgotten cases like this.