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* [PATCH] libperf tests: Avoid uninitialized variable warning.
@ 2021-01-14 21:23 Ian Rogers
  2021-01-15  7:41 ` Namhyung Kim
                   ` (2 more replies)
  0 siblings, 3 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Ian Rogers @ 2021-01-14 21:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Peter Zijlstra, Ingo Molnar, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo,
	Mark Rutland, Alexander Shishkin, Jiri Olsa, Namhyung Kim,
	linux-kernel
  Cc: Stephane Eranian, Ian Rogers

The variable bf is read (for a write call) without being initialized
triggering a memory sanitizer warning. Use bf in the read and switch the
write to reading from a string.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
---
 tools/lib/perf/tests/test-evlist.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/lib/perf/tests/test-evlist.c b/tools/lib/perf/tests/test-evlist.c
index 6d8ebe0c2504..1b225fe34a72 100644
--- a/tools/lib/perf/tests/test-evlist.c
+++ b/tools/lib/perf/tests/test-evlist.c
@@ -208,7 +208,6 @@ static int test_mmap_thread(void)
 	char path[PATH_MAX];
 	int id, err, pid, go_pipe[2];
 	union perf_event *event;
-	char bf;
 	int count = 0;
 
 	snprintf(path, PATH_MAX, "%s/kernel/debug/tracing/events/syscalls/sys_enter_prctl/id",
@@ -229,6 +228,7 @@ static int test_mmap_thread(void)
 	pid = fork();
 	if (!pid) {
 		int i;
+		char bf;
 
 		read(go_pipe[0], &bf, 1);
 
@@ -266,7 +266,7 @@ static int test_mmap_thread(void)
 	perf_evlist__enable(evlist);
 
 	/* kick the child and wait for it to finish */
-	write(go_pipe[1], &bf, 1);
+	write(go_pipe[1], "A", 1);
 	waitpid(pid, NULL, 0);
 
 	/*
-- 
2.30.0.296.g2bfb1c46d8-goog


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