From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 27E7128ED for ; Mon, 12 Dec 2022 13:22:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 335D4C433F0; Mon, 12 Dec 2022 13:22:29 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=linuxfoundation.org; s=korg; t=1670851351; bh=t5lDt94o+0UMkmBnbX/ERIKZTtGQly5Z1mzQsCTM5Cw=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:In-Reply-To:References:From; b=TbnXsHJn/Dbvs3MthDiLFNnVolZ283SecfGgFyqBu9ms8GrjU4v47s3R3edSeTonG HHNiCETCBb28w3zPk1nOluYr95U6N5MF4cBzy9tKLKROwjU/hWQlxWRYUBccAWNAJ0 jvKOgcf1OyBHCxarohtUYwGV/x59S5E96HF4IRBQ= From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , patches@lists.linux.dev, Hauke Mehrtens , Stefan Schmidt , Sasha Levin Subject: [PATCH 5.4 35/67] ca8210: Fix crash by zero initializing data Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2022 14:17:10 +0100 Message-Id: <20221212130919.298141690@linuxfoundation.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.38.1 In-Reply-To: <20221212130917.599345531@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20221212130917.599345531@linuxfoundation.org> User-Agent: quilt/0.67 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: patches@lists.linux.dev List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From: Hauke Mehrtens [ Upstream commit 1e24c54da257ab93cff5826be8a793b014a5dc9c ] The struct cas_control embeds multiple generic SPI structures and we have to make sure these structures are initialized to default values. This driver does not set all attributes. When using kmalloc before some attributes were not initialized and contained random data which caused random crashes at bootup. Fixes: ded845a781a5 ("ieee802154: Add CA8210 IEEE 802.15.4 device driver") Signed-off-by: Hauke Mehrtens Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221121002201.1339636-1-hauke@hauke-m.de Signed-off-by: Stefan Schmidt Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin --- drivers/net/ieee802154/ca8210.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/ieee802154/ca8210.c b/drivers/net/ieee802154/ca8210.c index 47959aadbc50..66cf09e637e4 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ieee802154/ca8210.c +++ b/drivers/net/ieee802154/ca8210.c @@ -926,7 +926,7 @@ static int ca8210_spi_transfer( dev_dbg(&spi->dev, "%s called\n", __func__); - cas_ctl = kmalloc(sizeof(*cas_ctl), GFP_ATOMIC); + cas_ctl = kzalloc(sizeof(*cas_ctl), GFP_ATOMIC); if (!cas_ctl) return -ENOMEM; -- 2.35.1