From: H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@visionengravers.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2012 22:45:34 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: staging: comedi: comedi_fops: use kzalloc in comedi_alloc_subdevice_minor()
X-Git-Tag: v3.9-rc1~127^2~514
X-Git-Url: https://openfabrics.org/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=71cf6d3ee9351d668e9374d4026bf3337540eb22;p=~emulex%2Finfiniband.git

staging: comedi: comedi_fops: use kzalloc in comedi_alloc_subdevice_minor()

The hardware_device member of comedi_file_info is not set in this
function. Use kzalloc to make sure this pointer does not contain
invalid data.

Signed-off-by: H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@visionengravers.com>
Cc: Ian Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---

diff --git a/drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_fops.c b/drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_fops.c
index 2826a29479c..dda47b161bc 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_fops.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_fops.c
@@ -2376,8 +2376,8 @@ int comedi_alloc_subdevice_minor(struct comedi_device *dev,
 	struct device *csdev;
 	unsigned i;
 
-	info = kmalloc(sizeof(*info), GFP_KERNEL);
-	if (info == NULL)
+	info = kzalloc(sizeof(*info), GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!info)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 	info->device = dev;
 	info->read_subdevice = s;