[PATCH] serial: of-serial: fix uninitialized kmalloc variable

[Jingchang Lu]

The info pointer points to an uninitialized kmalloced space.
If a device doesn't have clk property, then info->clk may
have unpredicated value and cause call trace. So use kzalloc
to make sure it is NULL initialized.

Signed-off-by: Jingchang Lu <jingchang.lu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 drivers/tty/serial/of_serial.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/of_serial.c b/drivers/tty/serial/of_serial.c
index 8bc2563..56982da4 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/serial/of_serial.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/of_serial.c
@@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ static int of_platform_serial_probe(struct platform_device *ofdev)
 	if (of_find_property(ofdev->dev.of_node, "used-by-rtas", NULL))
 		return -EBUSY;
 
-	info = kmalloc(sizeof(*info), GFP_KERNEL);
+	info = kzalloc(sizeof(*info), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (info == NULL)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
-- 
1.8.0

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