From cc18f965b6322513c0ae2ae65420067dd873b360 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dan Hoffman <43101339+thedanhoffman@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2026 23:05:37 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] fix(openvino): explicit memset in buffer_context allocation
 (#20857)

* fix(openvino): explicit memset in buffer_context allocation

* minor

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Co-authored-by: Dan Hoffman <dhoffman@cyket.net>
Co-authored-by: Georgi Gerganov <ggerganov@gmail.com>
---
 ggml/src/ggml-openvino/ggml-openvino.cpp | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/ggml/src/ggml-openvino/ggml-openvino.cpp b/ggml/src/ggml-openvino/ggml-openvino.cpp
index 0031cb7369..b3058b4af7 100644
--- a/ggml/src/ggml-openvino/ggml-openvino.cpp
+++ b/ggml/src/ggml-openvino/ggml-openvino.cpp
@@ -97,6 +97,8 @@ struct ggml_backend_openvino_buffer_context {
             ov_buffer = std::make_shared<ov::intel_gpu::ocl::USMTensor>(std::move(usm_tensor));
         } else {
             data = ggml_aligned_malloc(size);
+            GGML_ASSERT(data);
+            memset(data, 0, size);
             ov_buffer = std::make_shared<ov::Tensor>(ov::element::u8, ov::Shape{size}, data);
         }