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authorLars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg@linbit.com>2010-11-24 10:41:45 +0100
committerPhilipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@linbit.com>2011-03-10 11:35:14 +0100
commit3e3a7766c2e6995ac98e7855017abc3544d54e08 (patch)
tree943c9d62c89764f1070a8a4067a3bd0d4e9de162 /drivers/block
parent17a93f3007c13003c739a19d0814cb5c2d21daba (diff)
drbd: use kzalloc and memset(,0,) to start with clean buffers in drbd_nl
Make sure we start with clean buffers to not accidentally send garbage back to userspace. Note: has not been observed; but just in case. Signed-off-by: Philipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@linbit.com> Signed-off-by: Lars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg@linbit.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/block')
-rw-r--r--drivers/block/drbd/drbd_nl.c5
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_nl.c b/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_nl.c
index f969d8717e23..80a389d24cdd 100644
--- a/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_nl.c
+++ b/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_nl.c
@@ -2211,7 +2211,7 @@ static void drbd_connector_callback(struct cn_msg *req, struct netlink_skb_parms
reply_size += cm->reply_body_size;
/* allocation not in the IO path, cqueue thread context */
- cn_reply = kmalloc(reply_size, GFP_KERNEL);
+ cn_reply = kzalloc(reply_size, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!cn_reply) {
retcode = ERR_NOMEM;
goto fail;
@@ -2382,7 +2382,7 @@ void drbd_bcast_ee(struct drbd_conf *mdev,
/* receiver thread context, which is not in the writeout path (of this node),
* but may be in the writeout path of the _other_ node.
* GFP_NOIO to avoid potential "distributed deadlock". */
- cn_reply = kmalloc(
+ cn_reply = kzalloc(
sizeof(struct cn_msg)+
sizeof(struct drbd_nl_cfg_reply)+
sizeof(struct dump_ee_tag_len_struct)+
@@ -2517,6 +2517,7 @@ void drbd_nl_send_reply(struct cn_msg *req, int ret_code)
(struct drbd_nl_cfg_reply *)cn_reply->data;
int rr;
+ memset(buffer, 0, sizeof(buffer));
cn_reply->id = req->id;
cn_reply->seq = req->seq;