Please make a pull request on github. It'll likely get merged quickly.
On May 29, 2014 5:04 PM, "Toshi Morita" <toshi@peernova.com> wrote:

> I ran bitcoind under valgrind and found a place where it references an
> uninitialized variable in some cases:
>
> tm@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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