Re: [libvirt] [PATCH 2/3] rpc: avoid uninitialized memory use

Spotted by Coverity. Gnutls documents that buffer must be NULL if gnutls_x509_crt_get_key_purpose_oid is to be used to determine the correct size needed for allocating a buffer. * src/rpc/virnettlscontext.c (virNetTLSContextCheckCertKeyPurpose): Initialize buffer. --- src/rpc/virnettlscontext.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/rpc/virnettlscontext.c b/src/rpc/virnettlscontext.c index 2a58ede..be08207 100644 --- a/src/rpc/virnettlscontext.c +++ b/src/rpc/virnettlscontext.c @@ -264,7 +264,7 @@ static int virNetTLSContextCheckCertKeyPurpose(gnutls_x509_crt_t cert, int i; unsigned int purposeCritical; unsigned int critical; - char *buffer; + char *buffer = NULL; size_t size; bool allowClient = false, allowServer = false;