[patch 4/6] staging: gdm72xx: zero out padding

Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter at oracle.com
Mon Feb 22 19:32:38 UTC 2016


We pad the start of this buffer with 256 bytes of padding.   It's not
clear to me exactly what's going on or how it's used but let's zero it
out.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter at oracle.com>

diff --git a/drivers/staging/gdm72xx/usb_boot.c b/drivers/staging/gdm72xx/usb_boot.c
index 3082987..4431a80 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/gdm72xx/usb_boot.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/gdm72xx/usb_boot.c
@@ -286,7 +286,7 @@ static int em_download_image(struct usb_device *usbdev, const char *img_name,
 		return ret;
 	}
 
-	buf = kmalloc(DOWNLOAD_CHUCK + pad_size, GFP_KERNEL);
+	buf = kzalloc(DOWNLOAD_CHUCK + pad_size, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!buf) {
 		release_firmware(firm);
 		return -ENOMEM;


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