linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net] net/mlx5: Fix uninitialized variable bug in outlen

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Date:   Tue, 22 Nov 2022 15:06:35 +0200
From:   Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>
To:     YueHaibing <yuehaibing@...wei.com>
Cc:     saeedm@...dia.com, davem@...emloft.net, edumazet@...gle.com,
        kuba@...nel.org, pabeni@...hat.com, moshe@...dia.com,
        ogerlitz@...lanox.com, eli@...lanox.com, jackm@....mellanox.co.il,
        roland@...estorage.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] net/mlx5: Fix uninitialized variable bug in
 outlen_write()

On Mon, Nov 21, 2022 at 07:22:04PM +0800, YueHaibing wrote:
> 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@...wei.com>
> ---
>  drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/cmd.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 

Thanks,
Reviewed-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@...dia.com>