From: Florian Westphal Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2024 17:38:45 +0000 (+0100) Subject: netfilter: nf_tables: use kzalloc for hook allocation X-Git-Tag: v6.6.19~25 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=73a7cdb487797f1b84822663c0fa3409bfb93b8a;p=thirdparty%2Fkernel%2Fstable.git netfilter: nf_tables: use kzalloc for hook allocation [ Upstream commit 195e5f88c2e48330ba5483e0bad2de3b3fad484f ] KMSAN reports unitialized variable when registering the hook, reg->hook_ops_type == NF_HOOK_OP_BPF) ~~~~~~~~~~~ undefined This is a small structure, just use kzalloc to make sure this won't happen again when new fields get added to nf_hook_ops. Fixes: 7b4b2fa37587 ("netfilter: annotate nf_tables base hook ops") Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin --- diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c b/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c index 36fdce00bdab4..8808d78d65235 100644 --- a/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c +++ b/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c @@ -2084,7 +2084,7 @@ static struct nft_hook *nft_netdev_hook_alloc(struct net *net, struct nft_hook *hook; int err; - hook = kmalloc(sizeof(struct nft_hook), GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT); + hook = kzalloc(sizeof(struct nft_hook), GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT); if (!hook) { err = -ENOMEM; goto err_hook_alloc;