linux-kernel - [PATCH 5/9] lib/group_cpus: don't zero cpumasks in group_cpus

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Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2024 18:50:49 -0800
From: Yury Norov <yury.norov@...il.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ming Lei <ming.lei@...hat.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Yury Norov <yury.norov@...il.com>,
	Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>,
	Breno Leitao <leitao@...ian.org>,
	Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>,
	Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>,
	Zi Yan <ziy@...dia.com>
Subject: [PATCH 5/9] lib/group_cpus: don't zero cpumasks in group_cpus_evenly() on allocation

nmsk and npresmsk are both allocated with zalloc_cpumask_var(), but they
are initialized by copying later in the code, and so may be allocated
uninitialized.

Signed-off-by: Yury Norov <yury.norov@...il.com>
---
 lib/group_cpus.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/group_cpus.c b/lib/group_cpus.c
index 952aac9eaa81..72c308f8c322 100644
--- a/lib/group_cpus.c
+++ b/lib/group_cpus.c
@@ -354,10 +354,10 @@ struct cpumask *group_cpus_evenly(unsigned int numgrps)
 	int ret = -ENOMEM;
 	struct cpumask *masks = NULL;
 
-	if (!zalloc_cpumask_var(&nmsk, GFP_KERNEL))
+	if (!alloc_cpumask_var(&nmsk, GFP_KERNEL))
 		return NULL;
 
-	if (!zalloc_cpumask_var(&npresmsk, GFP_KERNEL))
+	if (!alloc_cpumask_var(&npresmsk, GFP_KERNEL))
 		goto fail_nmsk;
 
 	node_to_cpumask = alloc_node_to_cpumask();
-- 
2.40.1