Subject: [net 04/15] net/mlx5: Fix uninitialized variable bug in outlen_write()

From: Saeed Mahameed <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2022 00:10:29 -0800

From: YueHaibing <[email-masked]>

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 <[email-masked]>
Reviewed-by: Leon Romanovsky <[email-masked]>
Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <[email-masked]>
---
 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 74bd05e5dda2..e7a894ba5c3e 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/cmd.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/cmd.c
@@ -1497,8 +1497,8 @@ 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)
-- 
2.38.1