From 2cc412b513f70ce914a3554a34917f7585a16f04 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Kim, Milo" <Milo.Kim@ti.com> Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2012 02:24:00 +0100 Subject: iio: inkern: allocate zeroed memory Use kzalloc() rather than kmalloc() for initializing the iio_channel structure. This patch enables the iio_dev and iio_chan_spec are set to NULL. This may prevent the page fault problem because the pointer of iio_chan_spec is initialized as NULL. The iio_chan_spec is updated only in case that the IIO map has specific channel label. When the map has no ADC channel label, then the value of iio_chan_spec remains as invalid pointer. To prevent this problem, the pointer should be initialized as NULL. Signed-off-by: Milo(Woogyom) Kim <milo.kim@ti.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org> --- drivers/iio/inkern.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/iio/inkern.c b/drivers/iio/inkern.c index a14e55dd8ddc..028c657f8da3 100644 --- a/drivers/iio/inkern.c +++ b/drivers/iio/inkern.c @@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ struct iio_channel *iio_channel_get(const char *name, const char *channel_name) if (c == NULL) return ERR_PTR(-ENODEV); - channel = kmalloc(sizeof(*channel), GFP_KERNEL); + channel = kzalloc(sizeof(*channel), GFP_KERNEL); if (channel == NULL) return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM); -- cgit v1.2.2