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Date:   Wed, 13 Sep 2023 19:24:25 -0700
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Subject: [PATCH v1] perf pmu: Ensure all alias variables are initialized
From:   Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
To:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
        Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
        Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>,
        Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>,
        Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>,
        Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>,
        Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>,
        Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>,
        James Clark <james.clark@arm.com>,
        linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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Fix an error detected by memory sanitizer:
```
==4033==WARNING: MemorySanitizer: use-of-uninitialized-value
    #0 0x55fb0fbedfc7 in read_alias_info tools/perf/util/pmu.c:457:6
    #1 0x55fb0fbea339 in check_info_data tools/perf/util/pmu.c:1434:2
    #2 0x55fb0fbea339 in perf_pmu__check_alias tools/perf/util/pmu.c:1504:9
    #3 0x55fb0fbdca85 in parse_events_add_pmu tools/perf/util/parse-events.c:1429:32
    #4 0x55fb0f965230 in parse_events_parse tools/perf/util/parse-events.y:299:6
    #5 0x55fb0fbdf6b2 in parse_events__scanner tools/perf/util/parse-events.c:1822:8
    #6 0x55fb0fbdf8c1 in __parse_events tools/perf/util/parse-events.c:2094:8
    #7 0x55fb0fa8ffa9 in parse_events tools/perf/util/parse-events.h:41:9
    #8 0x55fb0fa8ffa9 in test_event tools/perf/tests/parse-events.c:2393:8
    #9 0x55fb0fa8f458 in test__pmu_events tools/perf/tests/parse-events.c:2551:15
    #10 0x55fb0fa6d93f in run_test tools/perf/tests/builtin-test.c:242:9
    #11 0x55fb0fa6d93f in test_and_print tools/perf/tests/builtin-test.c:271:8
    #12 0x55fb0fa6d082 in __cmd_test tools/perf/tests/builtin-test.c:442:5
    #13 0x55fb0fa6d082 in cmd_test tools/perf/tests/builtin-test.c:564:9
    #14 0x55fb0f942720 in run_builtin tools/perf/perf.c:322:11
    #15 0x55fb0f942486 in handle_internal_command tools/perf/perf.c:375:8
    #16 0x55fb0f941dab in run_argv tools/perf/perf.c:419:2
    #17 0x55fb0f941dab in main tools/perf/perf.c:535:3
```

Fixes: 7b723dbb96e8 ("perf pmu: Be lazy about loading event info files
from sysfs")

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
---
 tools/perf/util/pmu.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/pmu.c b/tools/perf/util/pmu.c
index d85602aa4b9f..8de6f39abd1b 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/pmu.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/pmu.c
@@ -520,7 +520,7 @@ static int perf_pmu__new_alias(struct perf_pmu *pmu, const char *name,
 		pmu_name = pe->pmu;
 	}
 
-	alias = malloc(sizeof(*alias));
+	alias = zalloc(sizeof(*alias));
 	if (!alias)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
-- 
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