When qemu is run under valgrind, valgrind shows the following output
on exit:
==3648== 1 errors in context 2 of 2:
==3648== Syscall param timer_create(evp) points to uninitialised byte(s)
==3648== at 0x54E936A: timer_create (in /lib/librt-2.9.so)
==3648== by 0x405DCF: dynticks_start_timer (vl.c:1549)
==3648== by 0x40A966: main (vl.c:1726)
==3648== Address 0x7fefffb34 is on thread 1's stack
==3648== Uninitialised value was created by a stack allocation
==3648== at 0x405D60: dynticks_start_timer (vl.c:1534)
This patch is a simple fix to remove this potential problem.
Signed-off-by: Jean-Christophe DUBOIS <jcd@tribudubois.net>
sigaction(SIGALRM, &act, NULL);
+ /*
+ * Initialize ev struct to 0 to avoid valgrind complaining
+ * about uninitialized data in timer_create call
+ */
+ memset(&ev, 0, sizeof(ev));
ev.sigev_value.sival_int = 0;
ev.sigev_notify = SIGEV_SIGNAL;
ev.sigev_signo = SIGALRM;