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authorKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>2015-06-17 01:36:17 +0300
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2015-06-21 19:49:55 +0300
commit92a486ca3a45777bdec0b9fd225a8eeec82bddb7 (patch)
treefaa0170f61e6fee89a14e994c694b7cceeabd70c /drivers/net/ethernet
parenta55e1c5c2640549ff3beb843f7ecaa242d69c351 (diff)
downloadlinux-92a486ca3a45777bdec0b9fd225a8eeec82bddb7.tar.xz
cxgb3: avoid needless buffer copy for firmware
There's no reason to perform a buffer copy for the firmware name. This also avoids a (currently impossible with current callers) NULL dereference if there was no matching firmware. Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/ethernet')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb3/cxgb3_main.c12
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb3/cxgb3_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb3/cxgb3_main.c
index b96e4bfcac41..8f7aa53a4c4b 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb3/cxgb3_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb3/cxgb3_main.c
@@ -1025,19 +1025,19 @@ int t3_get_edc_fw(struct cphy *phy, int edc_idx, int size)
{
struct adapter *adapter = phy->adapter;
const struct firmware *fw;
- char buf[64];
+ const char *fw_name;
u32 csum;
const __be32 *p;
u16 *cache = phy->phy_cache;
- int i, ret;
-
- snprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), get_edc_fw_name(edc_idx));
+ int i, ret = -EINVAL;
- ret = request_firmware(&fw, buf, &adapter->pdev->dev);
+ fw_name = get_edc_fw_name(edc_idx);
+ if (fw_name)
+ ret = request_firmware(&fw, fw_name, &adapter->pdev->dev);
if (ret < 0) {
dev_err(&adapter->pdev->dev,
"could not upgrade firmware: unable to load %s\n",
- buf);
+ fw_name);
return ret;
}