[patch 08/60] sparc64: Fix crash with /proc/iomem

[Greg KH]

-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us know.

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From: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx>


[ Upstream commit 192d7a4667c6d11d1a174ec4cad9a3c5d5f9043c ]

When you compile kernel on Sparc64 with heap memory checking and type
"cat /proc/iomem", you get a crash, because pointers in struct
resource are uninitialized.

Most code fills struct resource with zeros, so I assume that it is
responsibility of the caller of request_resource to initialized it,
not the responsibility of request_resource functuion.

After 2.6.29 is out, there could be a check for uninitialized fields
added to request_resource to avoid crashes like this.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx>
---
 arch/sparc64/kernel/pci_common.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/arch/sparc64/kernel/pci_common.c
+++ b/arch/sparc64/kernel/pci_common.c
@@ -368,7 +368,7 @@ static void pci_register_iommu_region(st
 	const u32 *vdma = of_get_property(pbm->prom_node, "virtual-dma", NULL);
 
 	if (vdma) {
-		struct resource *rp = kmalloc(sizeof(*rp), GFP_KERNEL);
+		struct resource *rp = kzalloc(sizeof(*rp), GFP_KERNEL);
 
 		if (!rp) {
 			prom_printf("Cannot allocate IOMMU resource.\n");


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