From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.0 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SIGNED_OFF_BY,SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4831EC43610 for ; Sun, 11 Nov 2018 20:06:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14D502080D for ; Sun, 11 Nov 2018 20:06:03 +0000 (UTC) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 mail.kernel.org 14D502080D Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=decadent.org.uk Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; spf=none smtp.mailfrom=linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1731330AbeKLFz2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Nov 2018 00:55:28 -0500 Received: from shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk ([88.96.1.126]:51888 "EHLO shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1730984AbeKLFz2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Nov 2018 00:55:28 -0500 Received: from [192.168.4.242] (helo=deadeye) by shadbolt.decadent.org.uk with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1gLvsw-0000oM-Dc; Sun, 11 Nov 2018 19:59:06 +0000 Received: from ben by deadeye with local (Exim 4.91) (envelope-from ) id 1gLvsU-0001e2-MV; Sun, 11 Nov 2018 19:58:38 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 From: Ben Hutchings To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org CC: akpm@linux-foundation.org, "Saeed Mahameed" , "Alex Vesker" Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2018 19:49:05 +0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: LinuxStableQueue (scripts by bwh) Subject: [PATCH 3.16 204/366] net/mlx5: Fix incorrect raw command length parsing In-Reply-To: X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 192.168.4.242 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: ben@decadent.org.uk X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on shadbolt.decadent.org.uk); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 3.16.61-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Alex Vesker commit 603b7bcff824740500ddfa001d7a7168b0b38542 upstream. The NULL character was not set correctly for the string containing the command length, this caused failures reading the output of the command due to a random length. The fix is to initialize the output length string. Fixes: e126ba97dba9 ("mlx5: Add driver for Mellanox Connect-IB adapters") Signed-off-by: Alex Vesker Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings --- drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/cmd.c | 4 +--- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/cmd.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/cmd.c @@ -1028,7 +1028,7 @@ static ssize_t outlen_write(struct file { struct mlx5_core_dev *dev = filp->private_data; struct mlx5_cmd_debug *dbg = &dev->cmd.dbg; - char outlen_str[8]; + char outlen_str[8] = {0}; int outlen; void *ptr; int err; @@ -1043,8 +1043,6 @@ static ssize_t outlen_write(struct file if (copy_from_user(outlen_str, buf, count)) return -EFAULT; - outlen_str[7] = 0; - err = sscanf(outlen_str, "%d", &outlen); if (err < 0) return err;