From: Dan Carpenter <error27@xxxxxxxxx> This addresses: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14998 We copy some strings into "event" but we leave the space after the NULL terminators uninitialized. Later in acpi_bus_receive_event() we copy the whole struct to another buffer with memcpy(). If the new buffer is stored on the stack, kmemcheck prints a warning about the unitialized space after the NULL terminators. It's true that the space is uninitialized, but it's harmless. The buffer is only used in acpi_system_read_event() and we don't read past the NULL terminators. This patch changes the kmalloc() to kzalloc() so that we initialize the memory and silence the kmemcheck warning. Reported-by: Christian Casteyde <casteyde.christian@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@xxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/acpi/bus.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/acpi/bus.c b/drivers/acpi/bus.c index 37132dc..743576b 100644 --- a/drivers/acpi/bus.c +++ b/drivers/acpi/bus.c @@ -527,7 +527,7 @@ int acpi_bus_generate_proc_event4(const char *device_class, const char *bus_id, if (!event_is_open) return 0; - event = kmalloc(sizeof(struct acpi_bus_event), GFP_ATOMIC); + event = kzalloc(sizeof(struct acpi_bus_event), GFP_ATOMIC); if (!event) return -ENOMEM; -- 1.6.0.6 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
