Re: [PATCH] virsocketaddr: Zero @netmask in virSocketAddrPrefixToNetmask()

On 10/9/20 10:43 AM, Michal Privoznik wrote: > The aim of virSocketAddrPrefixToNetmask() is to initialize passed > virSocketAddr structure based on prefix length and family. > However, it doesn't set all members in the struct which may lead > to reads of uninitialized values: > > ==15421== Use of uninitialised value of size 8 > ==15421==    at 0x50F297A: _itoa_word (in /lib64/libc-2.31.so) > ==15421==    by 0x510C8FE: __vfprintf_internal (in /lib64/libc-2.31.so) > ==15421==    by 0x5120295: __vsnprintf_internal (in /lib64/libc-2.31.so) > ==15421==    by 0x50F8969: snprintf (in /lib64/libc-2.31.so) > ==15421==    by 0x51BB602: getnameinfo (in /lib64/libc-2.31.so) > ==15421==    by 0x496DEE0: virSocketAddrFormatFull (virsocketaddr.c:486) > ==15421==    by 0x496DD9F: virSocketAddrFormat (virsocketaddr.c:444) > ==15421==    by 0x11871F: networkDnsmasqConfContents > (bridge_driver.c:1404) > ==15421==    by 0x1118F5: testCompareXMLToConfFiles > (networkxml2conftest.c:48) > ==15421==    by 0x111BAF: testCompareXMLToConfHelper > (networkxml2conftest.c:112) > ==15421==    by 0x112679: virTestRun (testutils.c:142) > ==15421==    by 0x111D09: mymain (networkxml2conftest.c:144) > ==15421==  Uninitialised value was created by a stack allocation > ==15421==    at 0x1175D2: networkDnsmasqConfContents > (bridge_driver.c:1056) > > All callers expect the function to initialize the structure > fully. > > Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn(a)redhat.com&gt; Reviewed-by: Laine Stump <laine(a)redhat.com&gt; Did you see actual errors caused by this, or just the valgrind complaints? It's been like this since the function was first implemented in 2010 (commit 1ab80f32. Yes, it was me. Sigh.) I wonder why nobody ever saw this valgrind complaint before. Some check that was newly added? (unless you've seen a real-world error, my guess would be that the fields that aren't being initialized are actually ignored when the family is set to INET or INET6, but even then it's still safer to clear everything out.)