From: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
To: barebox@lists.infradead.org, Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@pengutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH master] usb: typec: fix freeing uninitialized memory
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2024 09:14:36 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <173252247665.164969.11822506804687659001.b4-ty@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20241122095326.2877232-1-a.fatoum@pengutronix.de>
On Fri, 22 Nov 2024 10:53:26 +0100, Ahmad Fatoum wrote:
> When the code was first added, a kzalloc was allocating the memory for
> the struct device. This has been recently changed to malloc as a
> shifting of the header caused the function to be no longer defined.
>
> malloc() doesn't zero the memory though, leading to a potential freeing
> of uninitialized memory in dev_set_name.
>
> [...]
Applied, thanks!
[1/1] usb: typec: fix freeing uninitialized memory
https://git.pengutronix.de/cgit/barebox/commit/?id=ae7b9c0383eb (link may not be stable)
Best regards,
--
Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-11-25 8:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-11-22 9:53 Ahmad Fatoum
2024-11-22 10:28 ` Marco Felsch
2024-11-22 10:34 ` Ahmad Fatoum
2024-11-25 8:14 ` Sascha Hauer [this message]
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