This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
ca8210: Fix crash by zero initializing data
to the 6.0-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
ca8210-fix-crash-by-zero-initializing-data.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.0 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 5731afb0e8aa7ed75f66a5190b80f9dae0120ca3
Author: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon Nov 21 01:22:01 2022 +0100
ca8210: Fix crash by zero initializing data
[ Upstream commit 1e24c54da257ab93cff5826be8a793b014a5dc9c ]
The struct cas_control embeds multiple generic SPI structures and we
have to make sure these structures are initialized to default values.
This driver does not set all attributes. When using kmalloc before some
attributes were not initialized and contained random data which caused
random crashes at bootup.
Fixes: ded845a781a5 ("ieee802154: Add CA8210 IEEE 802.15.4 device driver")
Signed-off-by: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221121002201.1339636-1-hauke@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Stefan Schmidt <stefan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/net/ieee802154/ca8210.c b/drivers/net/ieee802154/ca8210.c
index 450b16ad40a4..e1a569b99e4a 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ieee802154/ca8210.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ieee802154/ca8210.c
@@ -885,7 +885,7 @@ static int ca8210_spi_transfer(
dev_dbg(&spi->dev, "%s called\n", __func__);
- cas_ctl = kmalloc(sizeof(*cas_ctl), GFP_ATOMIC);
+ cas_ctl = kzalloc(sizeof(*cas_ctl), GFP_ATOMIC);
if (!cas_ctl)
return -ENOMEM;
