From: Sven Schnelle <svens@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit e240b0fde52f33670d1336697c22d90a4fe33c84 upstream. To prevent unitialized members, use kzalloc to allocate the xol area. Fixes: b059a453b1cf1 ("x86/vdso: Add mremap hook to vm_special_mapping") Signed-off-by: Sven Schnelle <svens@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240903102313.3402529-1-svens@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/events/uprobes.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/kernel/events/uprobes.c +++ b/kernel/events/uprobes.c @@ -1480,7 +1480,7 @@ static struct xol_area *__create_xol_are uprobe_opcode_t insn = UPROBE_SWBP_INSN; struct xol_area *area; - area = kmalloc(sizeof(*area), GFP_KERNEL); + area = kzalloc(sizeof(*area), GFP_KERNEL); if (unlikely(!area)) goto out; @@ -1490,7 +1490,6 @@ static struct xol_area *__create_xol_are goto free_area; area->xol_mapping.name = "[uprobes]"; - area->xol_mapping.fault = NULL; area->xol_mapping.pages = area->pages; area->pages[0] = alloc_page(GFP_HIGHUSER); if (!area->pages[0]) Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from svens@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-6.10/uprobes-use-kzalloc-to-allocate-xol-area.patch queue-6.10/s390-boot-do-not-assume-the-decompressor-range-is-re.patch