[Steinar H. Gunderson] Bug#260468: make: reads uninitialized memory

[Manoj Srivastava]

Hi,

        The following was reported by a Debian user. It is a simple
 fix, and seems correct.

        manoj

--- Begin Message --- Subject: Bug#260468: make: reads uninitialized memory Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 21:05:42 +0200

Package: make
Version: 3.80-8
Severity: normal
Tags: patch

make checks at several places "v->special" (where v is a "struct
variable"), but never seems to set this bit to 0. I haven't seen this
give actual errors anywhere, but it cropped up as valgrind hits while
trying to debug a makefile (the makefile was wrong, not make, though :-)
).

The included patch explicitly sets v->special to 0 at initialization
time, which fixes the valgrind hits.


-- System Information:
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.6
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO8859-1

Versions of packages make depends on:
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an

-- no debconf information

make-3.80-fix-valgrind-hits.patch
Description: Text document

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