linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] serial: of-serial: fix uninitialized kmalloc variable

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Date:	Tue, 21 Oct 2014 12:11:08 +0200
From:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Cc:	Jingchang Lu <jingchang.lu@...escale.com>,
	gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, peter@...leysoftware.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-serial@...r.kernel.org,
	josephl@...dia.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] serial: of-serial: fix uninitialized kmalloc variable

On Tuesday 21 October 2014 16:50:21 Jingchang Lu wrote:
> The info pointer points to an uninitialized kmalloced space.
> If a device doesn't have clk property, then info->clk may
> have unpredicated value and cause call trace. So use kzalloc
> to make sure it is NULL initialized.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jingchang Lu <jingchang.lu@...escale.com>
> 

Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de
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