📅 Original date posted:2014-05-29
📝 Original message:Ok. Done.
Toshi
On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 5:06 PM, Mark Friedenbach <mark at monetize.io> wrote:
> Please make a pull request on github. It'll likely get merged quickly.
> On May 29, 2014 5:04 PM, "Toshi Morita" <toshi at peernova.com> wrote:
>
>> I ran bitcoind under valgrind and found a place where it references an
>> uninitialized variable in some cases:
>>
>> tm at tm-VirtualBox:~/bitcoind/bitcoin/src$ valgrind ./bitcoind
>> ==2337== Memcheck, a memory error detector
>> ==2337== Copyright (C) 2002-2012, and GNU GPL'd, by Julian Seward et al.
>> ==2337== Using Valgrind-3.8.1 and LibVEX; rerun with -h for copyright info
>> ==2337== Command: ./bitcoind
>> ==2337==
>> ==2337== Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised value(s)
>> ==2337== at 0x319176: CWallet::LoadKeyMetadata(CPubKey const&,
>> CKeyMetadata const&) (wallet.cpp:110)
>> ==2337== by 0x33645A: ReadKeyValue(CWallet*, CDataStream&,
>> CDataStream&, CWalletScanState&, std::string&, std::string&)
>> (walletdb.cpp:509)
>> ==2337== by 0x3374F0: CWalletDB::LoadWallet(CWallet*)
>> (walletdb.cpp:623)
>> ==2337== by 0x3218FD: CWallet::LoadWallet(bool&) (wallet.cpp:1485)
>> ==2337== by 0x157F16: AppInit2(boost::thread_group&) (init.cpp:958)
>> ==2337== by 0x140142: AppInit(int, char**) (bitcoind.cpp:143)
>> ==2337== by 0x13649E: main (bitcoind.cpp:180)
>> ==2337==
>>
>> The bug occurs here because nTimeFirstKey is not initialized when the
>> wallet is instantiated:
>>
>> wallet.cpp:63
>> if (!nTimeFirstKey || nCreationTime < nTimeFirstKey)
>> nTimeFirstKey = nCreationTime;
>>
>>
>> I fixed it in my fork:
>>
>> diff --git a/src/wallet.h b/src/wallet.h
>> index 9607415..b78045f 100644
>> --- a/src/wallet.h
>> +++ b/src/wallet.h
>> @@ -163,6 +163,7 @@ public:
>> nOrderPosNext = 0;
>> nNextResend = 0;
>> nLastResend = 0;
>> + nTimeFirstKey = 0;
>> }
>>
>> If this fix is ok please pull from my GitHub fork; username on GitHub is
>> tm314159.
>>
>> Toshi
>>
>>
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