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Date: Thu, 19 May 2016 17:28:58 +0200
From: John Regehr <regehr@...utah.edu>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: uninitialized variable

This call:

regcomp(&r, "^(b+|||(CW*)*|){5,}{53}*+)^?5,}", REG_EXTENDED);

ends up using uninitialized memory like so:

regcomp.c:221:[kernel] warning: accessing uninitialized left-value:
                   assert \initialized(&right->num_submatches);
                   stack: tre_ast_new_catenation :: regcomp.c:1764 <-
                          tre_copy_ast :: regcomp.c:1916 <-
                          tre_expand_ast :: regcomp.c:2771 <-
                          musl_regcomp :: foo.c:9 <-
                          main

Having crap in this field seems bad since it is used to compute a malloc 
size.

John

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