[PATCH 4.9 071/207] media: usb: dvd-usb: fix uninit-value bug in dibusb_read_eeprom_byte()

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Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Date
2021-11-24 12:18:04
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Greg Kroah-Hartman, 2021-11-24
From: Anant Thazhemadam <redacted>

[ Upstream commit 899a61a3305d49e8a712e9ab20d0db94bde5929f ]

In dibusb_read_eeprom_byte(), if dibusb_i2c_msg() fails, val gets
assigned an value that's not properly initialized.
Using kzalloc() in place of kmalloc() for the buffer fixes this issue,
as the val can now be set to 0 in the event dibusb_i2c_msg() fails.

Reported-by: <redacted>
Tested-by: <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Anant Thazhemadam <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Sean Young <sean@mess.org>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
 drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/dibusb-common.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/dibusb-common.c b/drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/dibusb-common.c
index bcacb0f220282..3e45642ae186b 100644
--- a/drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/dibusb-common.c
+++ b/drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/dibusb-common.c
@@ -226,7 +226,7 @@ int dibusb_read_eeprom_byte(struct dvb_usb_device *d, u8 offs, u8 *val)
 	u8 *buf;
 	int rc;
 
-	buf = kmalloc(2, GFP_KERNEL);
+	buf = kzalloc(2, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!buf)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
-- 
2.33.0


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