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-rw-r--r--drivers/misc/ibmasm/ibmasmfs.c3
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/misc/ibmasm/ibmasmfs.c b/drivers/misc/ibmasm/ibmasmfs.c
index eb7b073734b8..22a7e8ba211d 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/ibmasm/ibmasmfs.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/ibmasm/ibmasmfs.c
@@ -563,11 +563,10 @@ static ssize_t remote_settings_file_write(struct file *file, const char __user *
if (*offset != 0)
return 0;
- buff = kmalloc (count + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
+ buff = kzalloc (count + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!buff)
return -ENOMEM;
- memset(buff, 0x0, count + 1);
if (copy_from_user(buff, ubuff, count)) {
kfree(buff);