Michael Tokarev, mjt at tls dot msk dot ru writes:

Initialize all fields of struct dep_t.
Without that, e.g. `busybox modprobe -v char-major-10-144' *sometimes*
fails this way (strace):

 write(1, "insmod    nvram `\213\f\10\n", 21) = 21

Note the garbage after module name which is taken from the m_options field,
which is not initialized in the alias reading/parsing part.
(Shell properly complains to this command, telling it can't find the
closing backtick)

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/modutils/modprobe.c b/modutils/modprobe.c
index c6a83553f..2b90eb019 100644
--- a/modutils/modprobe.c
+++ b/modutils/modprobe.c
@@ -306,10 +306,10 @@ static struct dep_t *build_dep ( void )
                                         // fprintf ( stderr, "ALIAS: '%s' -> '%s'\n", alias, mod );
 
                                         if ( !current ) {
-                                                first = current = (struct dep_t *) xmalloc ( sizeof ( struct dep_t ));
+                                                first = current = (struct dep_t *) xcalloc ( 1, sizeof ( struct dep_t ));
                                         }
                                         else {
-                                                current-> m_next = (struct dep_t *) xmalloc ( sizeof ( struct dep_t ));
+                                                current-> m_next = (struct dep_t *) xcalloc ( 1, sizeof ( struct dep_t ));
                                                 current = current-> m_next;
                                         }
                                         current-> m_module  = bb_xstrdup ( alias );