In the next commit we will add new fields to map_groups and we need these to be null if no value is assigned. The simplest way to achieve this is to request zeroed memory from the allocator.
Signed-off-by: John Keeping <j...@metanate.com> --- Unchanged in v2 --- tools/perf/util/map.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/tools/perf/util/map.c b/tools/perf/util/map.c index 668410b1d426..44b556812e4b 100644 --- a/tools/perf/util/map.c +++ b/tools/perf/util/map.c @@ -636,7 +636,7 @@ bool map_groups__empty(struct map_groups *mg) struct map_groups *map_groups__new(struct machine *machine) { - struct map_groups *mg = malloc(sizeof(*mg)); + struct map_groups *mg = zalloc(sizeof(*mg)); if (mg != NULL) map_groups__init(mg, machine); -- 2.22.0