linux-kernel - [PATCH 3.2 040/149] of: Fix missing memory initialization on FDT unflattening

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Date:	Mon, 21 Oct 2013 09:46:28 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
CC:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	"Wladislav Wiebe" <wladislav.kw@...il.com>,
	"Grant Likely" <grant.likely@...aro.org>
Subject: [PATCH 3.2 040/149] of: Fix missing memory initialization on FDT
 unflattening

3.2.52-rc1 review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Grant Likely <grant.likely@...aro.org>

commit 0640332e073be9207f0784df43595c0c39716e42 upstream.

Any calls to dt_alloc() need to be zeroed. This is a temporary fix, but
the allocation function itself needs to zero memory before returning
it. This is a follow up to patch 9e4012752, "of: fdt: fix memory
initialization for expanded DT" which fixed one call site but missed
another.

Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@...aro.org>
Acked-by: Wladislav Wiebe <wladislav.kw@...il.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
---
 drivers/of/base.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

--- a/drivers/of/base.c
+++ b/drivers/of/base.c
@@ -1189,6 +1189,7 @@ void of_alias_scan(void * (*dt_alloc)(u6
 		ap = dt_alloc(sizeof(*ap) + len + 1, 4);
 		if (!ap)
 			continue;
+		memset(ap, 0, sizeof(*ap) + len + 1);
 		ap->alias = start;
 		of_alias_add(ap, np, id, start, len);
 	}

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