[PATCH] busfault: Quash a valgrind complaint

Daniel Martin consume.noise at gmail.com
Tue Apr 8 06:30:05 PDT 2014


On 8 April 2014 15:05, Adam Jackson <ajax at redhat.com> wrote:
>   Syscall param rt_sigaction(act->sa_mask) points to uninitialised byte(s)
>      at 0x388520F85A: __libc_sigaction (sigaction.c:64)
>      by 0x468161: busfault_init (busfault.c:145)
>      by 0x46E09A: OsInit (osinit.c:191)
>      by 0x43A3EA: dix_main (main.c:163)
>      by 0x3884A21D64: (below main) (libc-start.c:285)
>    Address 0xffeffedd8 is on thread 1's stack
>
> I can't think of a reason to block any other signals while this is
> running - both SIGALRM and SIGIO should be harmless here - so just set
> the mask to empty.
>
> Signed-off-by: Adam Jackson <ajax at redhat.com>
> ---
>  os/busfault.c | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/os/busfault.c b/os/busfault.c
> index 43bb6ea..bce7dfc 100644
> --- a/os/busfault.c
> +++ b/os/busfault.c
> @@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ busfault_init(void)
>  {
>      struct sigaction    act, old_act;
>
> +    sigemptyset(&act.sa_mask);
>      act.sa_sigaction = busfault_sigaction;
>      act.sa_flags = SA_SIGINFO;
>      if (sigaction(SIGBUS, &act, &old_act) < 0)
> --
> 1.9.0
>
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Eric sent a patch for this earlier:
    http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel/2014-April/041714.html


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