If program loading fails before verifier prints its first message, the verifier log will not be initialized. Always set the first character of the log buffer to zero to make sure we don't dump non-printable characters to the terminal.
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicin...@netronome.com> Reviewed-by: Quentin Monnet <quentin.mon...@netronome.com> --- lib/bpf.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/lib/bpf.c b/lib/bpf.c index 10ea23a471ef..fdc28772fb71 100644 --- a/lib/bpf.c +++ b/lib/bpf.c @@ -1153,7 +1153,7 @@ static int bpf_log_realloc(struct bpf_elf_ctx *ctx) { const size_t log_max = UINT_MAX >> 8; size_t log_size = ctx->log_size; - void *ptr; + char *ptr; if (!ctx->log) { log_size = 65536; @@ -1169,6 +1169,7 @@ static int bpf_log_realloc(struct bpf_elf_ctx *ctx) if (!ptr) return -ENOMEM; + ptr[0] = 0; ctx->log = ptr; ctx->log_size = log_size; -- 2.14.1