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media: usb: dvd-usb: fix uninit-value bug in dibusb_read_eeprom_byte()

Message ID 20201207061606.163403-1-anant.thazhemadam@gmail.com
State Accepted
Commit 899a61a3305d49e8a712e9ab20d0db94bde5929f
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Series media: usb: dvd-usb: fix uninit-value bug in dibusb_read_eeprom_byte() | expand

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Anant Thazhemadam Dec. 7, 2020, 6:16 a.m. UTC 
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: syzbot+e27b4fd589762b0b9329@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Tested-by: syzbot+e27b4fd589762b0b9329@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Anant Thazhemadam <anant.thazhemadam@gmail.com>
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 drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/dibusb-common.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
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diff --git a/drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/dibusb-common.c b/drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/dibusb-common.c
index 02b51d1a1b67..aff60c10cb0b 100644
--- a/drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/dibusb-common.c
+++ b/drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/dibusb-common.c
@@ -223,7 +223,7 @@  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;