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authorYueHaibing <yuehaibing@huawei.com>2022-11-21 14:22:04 +0300
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2022-12-08 13:28:40 +0300
commit839eeab03c831a52333f7e9737685742a2c0cc1d (patch)
tree50dff6bae2fb66e8ca751f89457724417e807f5e
parent34feea3bfb37e09b20b9891ad72a815ac7895bd8 (diff)
downloadlinux-839eeab03c831a52333f7e9737685742a2c0cc1d.tar.xz
net/mlx5: Fix uninitialized variable bug in outlen_write()
[ Upstream commit 3f5769a074c13d8f08455e40586600419e02a880 ] If sscanf() return 0, outlen is uninitialized and used in kzalloc(), this is unexpected. We should return -EINVAL if the string is invalid. Fixes: e126ba97dba9 ("mlx5: Add driver for Mellanox Connect-IB adapters") Signed-off-by: YueHaibing <yuehaibing@huawei.com> Reviewed-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/cmd.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/cmd.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/cmd.c
index 85190f2f4d50..41c15a65fb45 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/cmd.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/cmd.c
@@ -1434,8 +1434,8 @@ static ssize_t outlen_write(struct file *filp, const char __user *buf,
return -EFAULT;
err = sscanf(outlen_str, "%d", &outlen);
- if (err < 0)
- return err;
+ if (err != 1)
+ return -EINVAL;
ptr = kzalloc(outlen, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!ptr)