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Re: [PATCH] Initialize nscd stats data [BZ #17892]
- From: Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>
- To: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh at redhat dot com>
- Cc: carlos at redhat dot com, libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2015 10:18:53 +0100
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Initialize nscd stats data [BZ #17892]
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Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@redhat.com> writes:
> nscd stats data that is sent from the daemon to the binary invoked with
> 'nscd -g' does not always initialize selinux data. Valgrind complains
> about it, so just initialize the entire struct once to get rid of that
> warning. I haven't done a full analysis of the code changed, but the
> net change in the code size of the send_stats function is just 2
> bytes. The valgrind warning:
I don't think this has anything to do with selinux data, it's just
complaining about uninitialised padding bytes, doesn't it?
Andreas.
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