From: Dan Carpenter Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 22:23:37 +0000 (+0200) Subject: ACPI: silence kmemcheck false positive X-Git-Url: https://git.karo-electronics.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=5cc4a0f6b72878ea4e96fdb392d5d24c892a988e;p=linux-beck.git ACPI: silence kmemcheck false positive This addresses: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14998 We copy some strings into "event" but we leave the space after the NULL terminators uninitialized. Later in acpi_bus_receive_event() we copy the whole struct to another buffer with memcpy(). If the new buffer is stored on the stack, kmemcheck prints a warning about the unitialized space after the NULL terminators. It's true that the space is uninitialized, but it's harmless. The buffer is only used in acpi_system_read_event() and we don't read past the NULL terminators. This patch changes the kmalloc() to kzalloc() so that we initialize the memory and silence the kmemcheck warning. Reported-by: Christian Casteyde Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter Signed-off-by: Len Brown --- diff --git a/drivers/acpi/bus.c b/drivers/acpi/bus.c index 37132dc2da03..743576bf1bd7 100644 --- a/drivers/acpi/bus.c +++ b/drivers/acpi/bus.c @@ -527,7 +527,7 @@ int acpi_bus_generate_proc_event4(const char *device_class, const char *bus_id, if (!event_is_open) return 0; - event = kmalloc(sizeof(struct acpi_bus_event), GFP_ATOMIC); + event = kzalloc(sizeof(struct acpi_bus_event), GFP_ATOMIC); if (!event) return -ENOMEM;