Re: Question about an uninitialized array in bpf_filter

[Denis Ovsienko <denis () ovsienko info>]

On Mon, 29 Apr 2024 16:19:04 +0200
Michal Ruprich <michalruprich () gmail com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I was wondering, whether the mem[BPF_MEMWORDS] array in function 
> pcapint_filter_with_aux_data in bpf_filter.c should be initialized?
> If the switch hits cases BPF_LD|BPF_MEM or BPF_LDX|BPF_MEM the
> variables A or X are filled with random uninitialized data from the
> array. Is it the case that this never happens before mem is filled
> with relevant data? In all cases, setting it to mem[BPF_MEMWORDS] =
> {0}; could not hurt probably?

Done, thank you.  Only the HP ANSI C compiler on HP-UX generated a
warning about it.

-- 
    Denis Ovsienko
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