netdev - Re: [PATCH v2] ethtool: do not vzalloc(0) on registers dump

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Date:   Fri, 03 Feb 2017 11:11:52 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     sgruszka@...hat.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, ben@...adent.org.uk
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] ethtool: do not vzalloc(0) on registers dump

From: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@...hat.com>
Date: Thu,  2 Feb 2017 13:32:10 +0100

> If ->get_regs_len() callback return 0, we allocate 0 bytes of memory,
> what print ugly warning in dmesg, which can be found further below.
> 
> This happen on mac80211 devices where ieee80211_get_regs_len() just
> return 0 and driver only fills ethtool_regs structure and actually
> do not provide any dump. However I assume this can happen on other
> drivers i.e. when for some devices driver provide regs dump and for
> others do not. Hence preventing to to print warning in ethtool code
> seems to be reasonable.
 ...
> Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@...hat.com>
> ---
> v1 -> v2: nullify regbuf to avoid using uninitialized variable in line:
>           if (regbuf && copy_to_user(useraddr, regbuf, regs.len))

Applied, thanks.