From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Mikulas Patocka , Dave Airlie Subject: [PATCH 4.4 65/80] udl-kms: fix crash due to uninitialized memory Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2018 18:49:43 +0200 Message-Id: <20180903164936.751157281@linuxfoundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20180903164934.171677301@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20180903164934.171677301@linuxfoundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 4.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Mikulas Patocka commit 09a00abe3a9941c2715ca83eb88172cd2f54d8fd upstream. We must use kzalloc when allocating the fb_deferred_io structure. Otherwise, the field first_io is undefined and it causes a crash. Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/gpu/drm/udl/udl_fb.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/udl/udl_fb.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/udl/udl_fb.c @@ -341,7 +341,7 @@ static int udl_fb_open(struct fb_info *i struct fb_deferred_io *fbdefio; - fbdefio = kmalloc(sizeof(struct fb_deferred_io), GFP_KERNEL); + fbdefio = kzalloc(sizeof(struct fb_deferred_io), GFP_KERNEL); if (fbdefio) { fbdefio->delay = DL_DEFIO_WRITE_DELAY;