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diff --git a/meta/recipes-kernel/module-init-tools/files/grab_module_memset.patch b/meta/recipes-kernel/module-init-tools/files/grab_module_memset.patch new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..9550255315 --- /dev/null +++ b/meta/recipes-kernel/module-init-tools/files/grab_module_memset.patch @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +# this patch is from Mark Hatle <mark.hatle@windriver.com>, who ran into +# a random segfault using the latest module-init-tools (3.12) and finally +# trace back to depmod.c:grab_module, which appears that the new malloc(...) +# setups up things, but never clears the memory that was just allocated. +# +# Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@intel.com>, 2010-08-06 + +diff --git a/depmod.c b/depmod.c +index 647e5e6..46e03e0 100644 +--- a/depmod.c ++++ b/depmod.c +@@ -313,6 +313,7 @@ static struct module *grab_module(const char *dirname, const char *filename) + + new = NOFAIL(malloc(sizeof(*new) + + strlen(dirname?:"") + 1 + strlen(filename) + 1)); ++ memset(new, 0x00, sizeof(*new) + strlen(dirname?:"") + 1 + strlen(filename) + 1); + if (dirname) + sprintf(new->pathname, "%s/%s", dirname, filename); + else |