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vhost: use kzalloc() instead of kmalloc() followed by memset()

Jon Maloy requested to merge jmaloy/jmaloy-centos-stream-9:CVE-2024-0340-RHEL-21507_c9s into main

vhost: use kzalloc() instead of kmalloc() followed by memset()

JIRA: https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-21507 CVE: CVE-2024-0340 Upstream: Merged

commit 4d8df0f5f79f747d75a7d356d9b9ea40a4e4c8a9
Author: Prathu Baronia <prathubaronia2011@gmail.com>
Date:   Mon May 22 14:20:19 2023 +0530

    vhost: use kzalloc() instead of kmalloc() followed by memset()

    Use kzalloc() to allocate new zeroed out msg node instead of
    memsetting a node allocated with kmalloc().

    Signed-off-by: Prathu Baronia <prathubaronia2011@gmail.com>
    Message-Id: <20230522085019.42914-1-prathubaronia2011@gmail.com>
    Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
    Reviewed-by: Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@redhat.com>

Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy jmaloy@redhat.com

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