From: Alex Vesker <va...@mellanox.com> 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 <va...@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <sae...@mellanox.com> --- drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/cmd.c | 4 +--- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/cmd.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/cmd.c index 487388aed98f..2db5fe571594 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/cmd.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/cmd.c @@ -1276,7 +1276,7 @@ static ssize_t outlen_write(struct file *filp, const char __user *buf, { 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; @@ -1291,8 +1291,6 @@ static ssize_t outlen_write(struct file *filp, const char __user *buf, 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; -- 2.17.0