[PATCH 6.0 092/157] ca8210: Fix crash by zero initializing data

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From: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@xxxxxxxxxx>

[ 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>
---
 drivers/net/ieee802154/ca8210.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

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;
 
-- 
2.35.1






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