[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] eal: fix rte_zalloc_socket to zero memory
Mattias Rönnblom
mattias.ronnblom at ericsson.com
Sun Dec 9 20:20:25 CET 2018
On 2018-12-07 23:24, David Harton wrote:
> The zalloc and calloc functions do not actually zero the memory.
> Added memset to rte_zmalloc_socket() so allocated memory is cleared.
>
> Signed-off-by: David Harton <dharton at cisco.com>
> ---
> lib/librte_eal/common/rte_malloc.c | 4 +++-
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/common/rte_malloc.c b/lib/librte_eal/common/rte_malloc.c
> index 0da5ad5e8..be382e534 100644
> --- a/lib/librte_eal/common/rte_malloc.c
> +++ b/lib/librte_eal/common/rte_malloc.c
> @@ -74,7 +74,9 @@ rte_malloc(const char *type, size_t size, unsigned align)
> void *
> rte_zmalloc_socket(const char *type, size_t size, unsigned align, int socket)
> {
> - return rte_malloc_socket(type, size, align, socket);
> + void *new_ptr = rte_malloc_socket(type, size, align, socket);
> + if (new_ptr) memset(new_ptr, 0, size);
Maybe it would be worth to have a likely() here.
> + return new_ptr;
> }
>
> /*
>
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