From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2012 13:59:29 +0000 (-0300) Subject: perf kvm: Initialize file_name var to fix segfault X-Git-Tag: upstream/snapshot3+hdmi~5742^2~13^2~51 X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=20914ce5b9e1ef4a35f1f09a2c9c8fb8eb1c4d86;p=platform%2Fadaptation%2Frenesas_rcar%2Frenesas_kernel.git perf kvm: Initialize file_name var to fix segfault The 3786063 commit: perf kvm: Rename perf_kvm to perf_kvm_stat Moved the file_name from inside a local struct var that initialized some of its members, thus zero initializing the not explicitely initialized variables, one of which was 'file_name', to a standalone local variable, but forgot to initialize it explicitely to NULL, so it then got some undefined value, causing a segfault in strdup when it wasn't, by luck, zero. Fix it by explicitely initializing it to NULL. Cc: David Ahern Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Mike Galbraith Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Stephane Eranian Cc: Xiao Guangrong Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-qo2jevp1bdcnh8khzdazs17s@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo --- diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-kvm.c b/tools/perf/builtin-kvm.c index ca3f80e..37a769d 100644 --- a/tools/perf/builtin-kvm.c +++ b/tools/perf/builtin-kvm.c @@ -973,8 +973,7 @@ __cmd_buildid_list(const char *file_name, int argc, const char **argv) int cmd_kvm(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix __maybe_unused) { - const char *file_name; - + const char *file_name = NULL; const struct option kvm_options[] = { OPT_STRING('i', "input", &file_name, "file", "Input file name"),