[Xen-changelog] [xen stable-4.8] xen/livepatch: Use zeroed memory allocations for arrays

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commit 68c4ef23e96e37ae1f10c34b7388e40fe07c880d
Author:     Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Mon Aug 28 11:45:02 2017 +0200
Commit:     Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Mon Aug 28 11:45:02 2017 +0200

    xen/livepatch: Use zeroed memory allocations for arrays
    
    Each of these arrays is sparse.  Use zeroed allocations to cause 
uninitialised
    array elements to contain deterministic values, most importantly for the
    embedded pointers.
    
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>
    Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>
    Tested-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx> [x86 and arm32]
    Reviewed-by: Ross Lagerwall <ross.lagerwall@xxxxxxxxxx>
    master commit: bd53b85156aaf0330181ab9b82d9a6c52fb30f8c
    master date: 2017-06-23 15:00:37 +0100
---
 xen/common/livepatch.c     | 4 ++--
 xen/common/livepatch_elf.c | 4 ++--
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/xen/common/livepatch.c b/xen/common/livepatch.c
index 8aaaad2..3a1a3db 100644
--- a/xen/common/livepatch.c
+++ b/xen/common/livepatch.c
@@ -770,8 +770,8 @@ static int build_symbol_table(struct payload *payload,
         }
     }
 
-    symtab = xmalloc_array(struct livepatch_symbol, nsyms);
-    strtab = xmalloc_array(char, strtab_len);
+    symtab = xzalloc_array(struct livepatch_symbol, nsyms);
+    strtab = xzalloc_array(char, strtab_len);
 
     if ( !strtab || !symtab )
     {
diff --git a/xen/common/livepatch_elf.c b/xen/common/livepatch_elf.c
index c4a9633..b69e271 100644
--- a/xen/common/livepatch_elf.c
+++ b/xen/common/livepatch_elf.c
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ static int elf_resolve_sections(struct livepatch_elf *elf, 
const void *data)
     int rc;
 
     /* livepatch_elf_load sanity checked e_shnum. */
-    sec = xmalloc_array(struct livepatch_elf_sec, elf->hdr->e_shnum);
+    sec = xzalloc_array(struct livepatch_elf_sec, elf->hdr->e_shnum);
     if ( !sec )
     {
         dprintk(XENLOG_ERR, LIVEPATCH"%s: Could not allocate memory for 
section table!\n",
@@ -225,7 +225,7 @@ static int elf_get_sym(struct livepatch_elf *elf, const 
void *data)
     /* No need to check values as elf_resolve_sections did it. */
     nsym = symtab_sec->sec->sh_size / symtab_sec->sec->sh_entsize;
 
-    sym = xmalloc_array(struct livepatch_elf_sym, nsym);
+    sym = xzalloc_array(struct livepatch_elf_sym, nsym);
     if ( !sym )
     {
         dprintk(XENLOG_ERR, LIVEPATCH "%s: Could not allocate memory for 
symbols\n",
--
generated by git-patchbot for /home/xen/git/xen.git#stable-4.8

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