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From: Brian Masney <bmasney@redhat.com>
To: Min zhang <zhangmin2026@yeah.net>
Cc: Wei Xu <xuwei5@hisilicon.com>,
	Michael Turquette <mturquette@baylibre.com>,
	Stephen Boyd <sboyd@kernel.org>,
	Philipp Zabel <p.zabel@pengutronix.de>,
	linux-clk@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] clk: hisilicon: reset: Use devm_kzalloc to initialize hisi_reset_controller
Date: Mon, 11 May 2026 11:09:32 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <agHxLO-sl3pCYVY6@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260511053216.538035-1-zhangmin2026@yeah.net>

On Mon, May 11, 2026 at 01:32:14PM +0800, Min zhang wrote:
> Using devm_kmalloc() does not zero-initialize the allocated structure.
> Uninitialized members in struct hisi_reset_controller may contain garbage
> data, which can cause reset_controller_register() to fail unexpectedly.
> 
> Replace devm_kmalloc() with devm_kzalloc() to ensure all structure fields
> are properly zero-initialized.
> 
> Fixes: reset controller registration failure due to invalid dirty data

This is not a valid fixes tag. Please drop.

> 
> Signed-off-by: Min zhang <zhangmin2026@yeah.net>

Fixes: 97b7129cd2afb ("reset: hisilicon: change the definition of hisi_reset_init")
Reviewed-by: Brian Masney <bmasney@redhat.com>


  reply	other threads:[~2026-05-11 15:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-05-11  5:32 [PATCH] clk: hisilicon: reset: Use devm_kzalloc to initialize hisi_reset_controller Min zhang
2026-05-11 15:09 ` Brian Masney [this message]
2026-05-11 17:04 ` [PATCH v2] " Min zhang
2026-05-11 17:50   ` Brian Masney

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