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authorDan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>2010-04-27 00:23:37 +0200
committerLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>2010-04-27 03:15:08 -0400
commit5cc4a0f6b72878ea4e96fdb392d5d24c892a988e (patch)
treeeffe24b060128127beec419d1fbea2b910e72160 /drivers/acpi/bus.c
parentb91ce4d14a21fc04d165be30319541e0f9204f15 (diff)
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ACPI: silence kmemcheck false positive
This addresses: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14998 We copy some strings into "event" but we leave the space after the NULL terminators uninitialized. Later in acpi_bus_receive_event() we copy the whole struct to another buffer with memcpy(). If the new buffer is stored on the stack, kmemcheck prints a warning about the unitialized space after the NULL terminators. It's true that the space is uninitialized, but it's harmless. The buffer is only used in acpi_system_read_event() and we don't read past the NULL terminators. This patch changes the kmalloc() to kzalloc() so that we initialize the memory and silence the kmemcheck warning. Reported-by: Christian Casteyde <casteyde.christian@free.fr> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/acpi/bus.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/acpi/bus.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/acpi/bus.c b/drivers/acpi/bus.c
index 37132dc2da03..743576bf1bd7 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/bus.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/bus.c
@@ -527,7 +527,7 @@ int acpi_bus_generate_proc_event4(const char *device_class, const char *bus_id,
if (!event_is_open)
return 0;
- event = kmalloc(sizeof(struct acpi_bus_event), GFP_ATOMIC);
+ event = kzalloc(sizeof(struct acpi_bus_event), GFP_ATOMIC);
if (!event)
return -ENOMEM;