Nature of the problem was not initialised buffer[256], there were probability that operation system will provide previously used memory and on special condition there were probability that string operations will work on random data that could provide unexpected program behaviour.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Mrzyglod <danielx.t.mrzyglod at intel.com> --- lib/librte_cfgfile/rte_cfgfile.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/lib/librte_cfgfile/rte_cfgfile.c b/lib/librte_cfgfile/rte_cfgfile.c index b81c273..9c85e9f 100644 --- a/lib/librte_cfgfile/rte_cfgfile.c +++ b/lib/librte_cfgfile/rte_cfgfile.c @@ -96,7 +96,10 @@ rte_cfgfile_load(const char *filename, int flags) int lineno = 0; struct rte_cfgfile *cfg = NULL; + memset(buffer, '\0', sizeof(buffer)); + FILE *f = fopen(filename, "r"); + if (f == NULL) return NULL; -- 2.1.0