So that padding or uninitialized bytes can't leak guest memory contents. Signed-off-by: Andrea Parri (Microsoft) <parri.andrea@xxxxxxxxx> --- net/vmw_vsock/hyperv_transport.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/vmw_vsock/hyperv_transport.c b/net/vmw_vsock/hyperv_transport.c index 092cadc2c866d..72ce00928c8e7 100644 --- a/net/vmw_vsock/hyperv_transport.c +++ b/net/vmw_vsock/hyperv_transport.c @@ -655,7 +655,7 @@ static ssize_t hvs_stream_enqueue(struct vsock_sock *vsk, struct msghdr *msg, BUILD_BUG_ON(sizeof(*send_buf) != HV_HYP_PAGE_SIZE); - send_buf = kmalloc(sizeof(*send_buf), GFP_KERNEL); + send_buf = kzalloc(sizeof(*send_buf), GFP_KERNEL); if (!send_buf) return -ENOMEM; -- 2.25.1
