Initialize nscd stats data [BZ #17892]

System Internals / glibc - Siddhesh Poyarekar [redhat.com] - 28 January 2015 23:00 UTC

The padding bytes in the statsdata struct are not initialized, due to which valgrind throws a warning:

==11384== Memcheck, a memory error detector
==11384== Copyright (C) 2002-2012, and GNU GPL'd, by Julian Seward et al.
==11384== Using Valgrind-3.8.1 and LibVEX; rerun with -h for copyright info
==11384== Command: nscd -d
==11384== Fri 25 Apr 2014 10:34:53 AM CEST - 11384: handle_request: request received (Version = 2) from PID 11396 Fri 25 Apr 2014 10:34:53 AM CEST - 11384: GETSTAT
==11384== Thread 6:
==11384== Syscall param socketcall.sendto(msg) points to uninitialised byte(s)
==11384== at 0x4E4ACDC: send (in /lib64/libpthread-2.12.so)
==11384== by 0x11AF6B: send_stats (in /usr/sbin/nscd)
==11384== by 0x112F75: nscd_run_worker (in /usr/sbin/nscd)
==11384== by 0x4E439D0: start_thread (in /lib64/libpthread-2.12.so)
==11384== by 0x599AB6C: clone (in /lib64/libc-2.12.so)
==11384== Address 0x15708395 is on thread 6's stack

Fix the warning by initializing the structure.

3cb2631 Initialize nscd stats data [BZ #17892]
ChangeLog | 5 +++++
NEWS | 2 +-
nscd/nscd_stat.c | 2 ++
3 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

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