We pad the start of this buffer with 256 bytes of padding. It's not clear to me exactly what's going on or how it's used but let's zero it out. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/staging/gdm72xx/usb_boot.c b/drivers/staging/gdm72xx/usb_boot.c index 3082987..4431a80 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/gdm72xx/usb_boot.c +++ b/drivers/staging/gdm72xx/usb_boot.c @@ -286,7 +286,7 @@ static int em_download_image(struct usb_device *usbdev, const char *img_name, return ret; } - buf = kmalloc(DOWNLOAD_CHUCK + pad_size, GFP_KERNEL); + buf = kzalloc(DOWNLOAD_CHUCK + pad_size, GFP_KERNEL); if (!buf) { release_firmware(firm); return -ENOMEM; -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html