From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> commit 5a7b44a8df822e0667fc76ed7130252523993bda upstream. syzbot reported the uninitialized value exposure in certain situations using virmidi loop. It's likely a very small race at writing and reading, and the influence is almost negligible. But it's safer to paper over this just by replacing the existing kvmalloc() with kvzalloc(). Reported-by: syzbot+194dffdb8b22fc5d207a@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- sound/core/rawmidi.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/sound/core/rawmidi.c +++ b/sound/core/rawmidi.c @@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ static int snd_rawmidi_runtime_create(st runtime->avail = 0; else runtime->avail = runtime->buffer_size; - if ((runtime->buffer = kmalloc(runtime->buffer_size, GFP_KERNEL)) == NULL) { + if ((runtime->buffer = kzalloc(runtime->buffer_size, GFP_KERNEL)) == NULL) { kfree(runtime); return -ENOMEM; } @@ -650,7 +650,7 @@ int snd_rawmidi_output_params(struct snd return -EINVAL; } if (params->buffer_size != runtime->buffer_size) { - newbuf = kmalloc(params->buffer_size, GFP_KERNEL); + newbuf = kzalloc(params->buffer_size, GFP_KERNEL); if (!newbuf) return -ENOMEM; spin_lock_irq(&runtime->lock);