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    SubjectRe: [PATCH net] vhost: Use kzalloc() to allocate vhost_msg_node
    On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 6:05 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> wrote:
    > On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 11:45:02AM -0400, Kevin Easton wrote:
    >> The struct vhost_msg within struct vhost_msg_node is copied to userspace,
    >> so it should be allocated with kzalloc() to ensure all structure padding
    >> is zeroed.
    >>
    >> Signed-off-by: Kevin Easton <kevin@guarana.org>
    >> Reported-by: syzbot+87cfa083e727a224754b@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
    >
    > Does it help if a patch naming the padding is applied,
    > and then we init just the relevant field?
    > Just curious.

    Yes, it would help.

    >> ---
    >> drivers/vhost/vhost.c | 2 +-
    >> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
    >>
    >> diff --git a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
    >> index f3bd8e9..1b84dcff 100644
    >> --- a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
    >> +++ b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
    >> @@ -2339,7 +2339,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(vhost_disable_notify);
    >> /* Create a new message. */
    >> struct vhost_msg_node *vhost_new_msg(struct vhost_virtqueue *vq, int type)
    >> {
    >> - struct vhost_msg_node *node = kmalloc(sizeof *node, GFP_KERNEL);
    >> + struct vhost_msg_node *node = kzalloc(sizeof *node, GFP_KERNEL);
    >> if (!node)
    >> return NULL;
    >> node->vq = vq;
    >> --
    >> 2.8.1
    >
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