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>
diff --git a/drivers/iio/inkern.c b/drivers/iio/inkern.c
index a14e55d..028c657 100644
--- a/drivers/iio/inkern.c
+++ b/drivers/iio/inkern.c
@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@
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);