gpio: use kzalloc to allocate gpio_device

The use of kmalloc() to allocate the gpio_device leaves the contained struct
device object in an unknown state.  Calling dev_set_name() on a struct device
of unknown state can trigger the free() of an invalid pointer, as seen in the
following backtrace (collected by Tony Lindgren):

  kfree
  kobject_set_name_vargs
  dev_set_name
  gpiochip_add_data
  omap_gpio_probe
  platform_drv_probe
  ...

Reported-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
Reported-by: Michael Welling <mwelling@ieee.org>
Reported-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
Tested-by: Michael Welling <mwelling@ieee.org>
Tested-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Cartwright <joshc@ni.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>

diff --git a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c
index d8511cd..59f0045 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c
+++ b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c
@@ -435,7 +435,7 @@ int gpiochip_add_data(struct gpio_chip *chip, void *data)
         * First: allocate and populate the internal stat container, and
         * set up the struct device.
         */
-       gdev = kmalloc(sizeof(*gdev), GFP_KERNEL);
+       gdev = kzalloc(sizeof(*gdev), GFP_KERNEL);
        if (!gdev)
                return -ENOMEM;
        gdev->dev.bus = &gpio_bus_type;