From patchwork Mon Nov 21 11:22:04 2022 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Yue Haibing X-Patchwork-Id: 13050765 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80850C4332F for ; Mon, 21 Nov 2022 11:29:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S230222AbiKUL3M (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Nov 2022 06:29:12 -0500 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:56882 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S230206AbiKUL2r (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Nov 2022 06:28:47 -0500 Received: from szxga01-in.huawei.com (szxga01-in.huawei.com [45.249.212.187]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6029AE03D; Mon, 21 Nov 2022 03:23:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from canpemm500007.china.huawei.com (unknown [172.30.72.54]) by szxga01-in.huawei.com (SkyGuard) with ESMTP id 4NG4f83FqpzqSYP; Mon, 21 Nov 2022 19:19:12 +0800 (CST) Received: from localhost (10.174.179.215) by canpemm500007.china.huawei.com (7.192.104.62) with Microsoft SMTP Server (version=TLS1_2, cipher=TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256) id 15.1.2375.31; Mon, 21 Nov 2022 19:23:05 +0800 From: YueHaibing To: , , , , , , , , , , CC: , , , YueHaibing Subject: [PATCH net] net/mlx5: Fix uninitialized variable bug in outlen_write() Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2022 19:22:04 +0800 Message-ID: <20221121112204.24456-1-yuehaibing@huawei.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.10.2.windows.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Originating-IP: [10.174.179.215] X-ClientProxiedBy: dggems701-chm.china.huawei.com (10.3.19.178) To canpemm500007.china.huawei.com (7.192.104.62) X-CFilter-Loop: Reflected Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org 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 Reviewed-by: Leon Romanovsky --- drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/cmd.c | 4 ++-- 1 file 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 2e0d59ca62b5..cfb1e9f18a6c 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/cmd.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/cmd.c @@ -1508,8 +1508,8 @@ 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)