Re: [PATCH] aspeed/hace: Initialize g_autofree pointer

[Cédric Le Goater]

On 4/21/23 15:15, Cédric Le Goater wrote:
> As mentioned in docs/devel/style.rst "Automatic memory deallocation":
>
> * Variables declared with g_auto* MUST always be initialized,
>    otherwise the cleanup function will use uninitialized stack memory
>
> This avoids QEMU to coredump when running the "hash test" command
> under Zephyr.
>
> Cc: Steven Lee <steven_lee@aspeedtech.com>
> Cc: Joel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au>
> Fixes: c5475b3f9a ("hw: Model ASPEED's Hash and Crypto Engine")
> Signed-off-by: Cédric Le Goater <clg@kaod.org>

Alex,

FYI, with Thomas's fixes and this oneliner, make check-avocado ran fine
with avocado bumped to version 100.1.

Cheers,

C.

> ---
>   hw/misc/aspeed_hace.c | 2 +-
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/hw/misc/aspeed_hace.c b/hw/misc/aspeed_hace.c
> index 12a761f1f5..b07506ec04 100644
> --- a/hw/misc/aspeed_hace.c
> +++ b/hw/misc/aspeed_hace.c
> @@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ static void do_hash_operation(AspeedHACEState *s, int algo, 
> bool sg_mode,
>                                 bool acc_mode)
>   {
>       struct iovec iov[ASPEED_HACE_MAX_SG];
> -    g_autofree uint8_t *digest_buf;
> +    g_autofree uint8_t *digest_buf = NULL;
>       size_t digest_len = 0;
>       int niov = 0;
>       int i;