From 7896efad66921d60161d88eea85002ac76fb27b1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Hauke Mehrtens Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2022 01:22:01 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] ca8210: Fix crash by zero initializing data [ Upstream commit 0503ec50e0c2b547050cbfcdb912f0617917952d ] 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: 7e8c65ebb33d ("ieee802154: Add CA8210 IEEE 802.15.4 device driver") Signed-off-by: Hauke Mehrtens Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221121002201.1339636-1-hauke@hauke-m.de Signed-off-by: Stefan Schmidt Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin --- 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 47959aadbc503..66cf09e637e4e 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ieee802154/ca8210.c +++ b/drivers/net/ieee802154/ca8210.c @@ -926,7 +926,7 @@ 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; -- 2.39.5