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-rw-r--r--source3/lib/util_str.c18
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/source3/lib/util_str.c b/source3/lib/util_str.c
index 7643c2807e..b734452867 100644
--- a/source3/lib/util_str.c
+++ b/source3/lib/util_str.c
@@ -424,15 +424,27 @@ size_t count_chars(const char *s,char c)
*
* This is meant to catch possible string overflows, even if the
* actual string copied is not big enough to cause an overflow.
+ *
+ * In addition, under Valgrind the buffer is marked as uninitialized.
**/
void clobber_region(const char *fn, unsigned int line, char *dest, size_t len)
{
#ifdef DEVELOPER
- /* F1 is odd and 0xf1f1f1f1 shouldn't be a valid pointer */
- memset(dest, 0xF1, len);
global_clobber_region_function = fn;
global_clobber_region_line = line;
-#endif
+
+ /* F1 is odd and 0xf1f1f1f1 shouldn't be a valid pointer */
+ memset(dest, 0xF1, len);
+#ifdef VALGRIND
+ /* Even though we just wrote to this, from the application's
+ * point of view it is not initialized.
+ *
+ * (This is not redundant with the clobbering above. The
+ * marking might not actually take effect if we're not running
+ * under valgrind or not with --client-perms.) */
+ VALGRIND_MAKE_WRITABLE(dest, len);
+#endif /* VALGRIND */
+#endif /* DEVELOPER */
}