ethtool: Use kcalloc instead of kmalloc for ethtool_get_strings
[ Upstream commit 077cb37f ] It seems that kernel memory can leak into userspace by a kmalloc, ethtool_get_strings, then copy_to_user sequence. Avoid this by using kcalloc to zero fill the copied buffer. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Acked-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> (cherry picked from commit 68c3e59a) Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
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