From: Anant Thazhemadam <anant.thazhemadam@gmail.com> commit 31dcb6c30a26d32650ce134820f27de3c675a45a upstream. A kernel-infoleak was reported by syzbot, which was caused because dbells was left uninitialized. Using kzalloc() instead of kmalloc() fixes this issue. Reported-by: syzbot+a79e17c39564bedf0930@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Tested-by: syzbot+a79e17c39564bedf0930@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Signed-off-by: Anant Thazhemadam <anant.thazhemadam@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201122224534.333471-1-anant.thazhemadam@gmail.co... Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> --- drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_context.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_context.c b/drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_context.c index bc089e634a75..26e20b091160 100644 --- a/drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_context.c +++ b/drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_context.c @@ -751,7 +751,7 @@ static int vmci_ctx_get_chkpt_doorbells(struct vmci_ctx *context, return VMCI_ERROR_MORE_DATA; } - dbells = kmalloc(data_size, GFP_ATOMIC); + dbells = kzalloc(data_size, GFP_ATOMIC); if (!dbells) return VMCI_ERROR_NO_MEM; -- 2.25.1