[Xen-changelog] [xen stable-4.8] libxc: fix segfault on uninitialized xch->fmem

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commit efd2ff999df72ee4c246927fd4297e3a75cadbf3
Author:     Seraphime Kirkovski <kirkseraph@xxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Tue Apr 4 14:40:48 2017 +0200
Commit:     Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Tue May 16 15:41:56 2017 +0100

    libxc: fix segfault on uninitialized xch->fmem
    
    Currently in xc_interface_open, xch->fmem is not initialized
    and in some rare case the code fails before ever assigning a value
    to it.
    
    I got this in master:
    
       $ sudo ./xl/xl run
       xencall: error: Could not obtain handle on privileged command interface: 
No such file or directory
       Segmentation fault
    
    This initializes the whole xch_buff to 0.
    
    Signed-off-by: Seraphime Kirkovski <kirkseraph@xxxxxxxxx>
    Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>
    (cherry picked from commit c4bdbec00c9063736361124a3492ebceabfaed06)
---
 tools/libxc/xc_private.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/libxc/xc_private.c b/tools/libxc/xc_private.c
index 9ba4b73..7bea1c5 100644
--- a/tools/libxc/xc_private.c
+++ b/tools/libxc/xc_private.c
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ struct xc_interface_core *xc_interface_open(xentoollog_logger 
*logger,
                                             xentoollog_logger *dombuild_logger,
                                             unsigned open_flags)
 {
-    struct xc_interface_core xch_buf, *xch = &xch_buf;
+    struct xc_interface_core xch_buf = { 0 }, *xch = &xch_buf;
 
     xch->flags = open_flags;
     xch->dombuild_logger_file = 0;
--
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