fsnotify: kzalloc fsnotify groups
authorEric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Fri, 18 Dec 2009 01:12:06 +0000 (20:12 -0500)
committerEric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Wed, 28 Jul 2010 13:58:20 +0000 (09:58 -0400)
Use kzalloc for fsnotify_groups so that none of the fields can leak any
information accidentally.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
fs/notify/group.c

index 0e1677144bc54222644eb009209468ebe0331b95..777ca8212255974103a5b9d8703f60d2c43a312a 100644 (file)
@@ -207,7 +207,7 @@ struct fsnotify_group *fsnotify_obtain_group(unsigned int group_num, __u32 mask,
        struct fsnotify_group *group, *tgroup;
 
        /* very low use, simpler locking if we just always alloc */
-       group = kmalloc(sizeof(struct fsnotify_group), GFP_KERNEL);
+       group = kzalloc(sizeof(struct fsnotify_group), GFP_KERNEL);
        if (!group)
                return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);