The 'name' variable in vtd_find_add_as function is not initialized now, so when in gdb, we will got following output:
(gdb) p name $1 = "vtd-00.0\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\060\330\377\377\377\177\000\000\001\000\000\000\000\000\000\000p\330\377\377\377\177\000\000\353\362\372VUU\000\000p\330\377\377\377\177\000\000 \000\000\060b\000\000\220\021\000\000\360a\000\000\200\"\002\000\020a\000\000 \000\000\060b\000\000\200\332\377\377\377\177\000\000\240\330\377\377\377\177\000\000<\364\372VUU\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000 \000\000\060b\000" After this patch, it is more clear: (gdb) p name $1 = "vtd-00.0", '\000' <repeats 119 times> Signed-off-by: Li Qiang <liq...@163.com> --- hw/i386/intel_iommu.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/hw/i386/intel_iommu.c b/hw/i386/intel_iommu.c index de86f53b4e..e379c2a512 100644 --- a/hw/i386/intel_iommu.c +++ b/hw/i386/intel_iommu.c @@ -3286,7 +3286,7 @@ VTDAddressSpace *vtd_find_add_as(IntelIOMMUState *s, PCIBus *bus, int devfn) uintptr_t key = (uintptr_t)bus; VTDBus *vtd_bus = g_hash_table_lookup(s->vtd_as_by_busptr, &key); VTDAddressSpace *vtd_dev_as; - char name[128]; + char name[128] = {}; if (!vtd_bus) { uintptr_t *new_key = g_malloc(sizeof(*new_key)); -- 2.17.1