The info pointer points to an uninitialized kmalloced space. If a device doesn't have clk property, then info->clk may have unpredicated value and cause call trace. So use kzalloc to make sure it is NULL initialized. Signed-off-by: Jingchang Lu <jingchang.lu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/tty/serial/of_serial.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/of_serial.c b/drivers/tty/serial/of_serial.c index 8bc2563..56982da4 100644 --- a/drivers/tty/serial/of_serial.c +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/of_serial.c @@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ static int of_platform_serial_probe(struct platform_device *ofdev) if (of_find_property(ofdev->dev.of_node, "used-by-rtas", NULL)) return -EBUSY; - info = kmalloc(sizeof(*info), GFP_KERNEL); + info = kzalloc(sizeof(*info), GFP_KERNEL); if (info == NULL) return -ENOMEM; -- 1.8.0 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-serial" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html