The hardware_device member of comedi_file_info is not set in this function. Use kzalloc to make sure this pointer does not contain invalid data. Signed-off-by: H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Ian Abbott <abbotti@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_fops.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_fops.c b/drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_fops.c index 2826a29..dda47b1 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_fops.c +++ b/drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_fops.c @@ -2376,8 +2376,8 @@ int comedi_alloc_subdevice_minor(struct comedi_device *dev, struct device *csdev; unsigned i; - info = kmalloc(sizeof(*info), GFP_KERNEL); - if (info == NULL) + info = kzalloc(sizeof(*info), GFP_KERNEL); + if (!info) return -ENOMEM; info->device = dev; info->read_subdevice = s; -- 1.8.0 _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel