strnlen() may return 0 (e.g. for "\0\n" string), it's better to check the result of strnlen() before using 'len - 1' expression for the 'buf' array index. Detected using the static analysis tool - Svace. Fixes: dc3b66a0ce70 ("RDMA/rtrs-clt: Add a minimum latency multipath policy") Signed-off-by: Alexey Kodanev <aleksei.kodanev@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/infiniband/ulp/rtrs/rtrs-clt-sysfs.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/ulp/rtrs/rtrs-clt-sysfs.c b/drivers/infiniband/ulp/rtrs/rtrs-clt-sysfs.c index d3c436ead694..4aa80c9388f0 100644 --- a/drivers/infiniband/ulp/rtrs/rtrs-clt-sysfs.c +++ b/drivers/infiniband/ulp/rtrs/rtrs-clt-sysfs.c @@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ static ssize_t mpath_policy_store(struct device *dev, /* distinguish "mi" and "min-latency" with length */ len = strnlen(buf, NAME_MAX); - if (buf[len - 1] == '\n') + if (len && buf[len - 1] == '\n') len--; if (!strncasecmp(buf, "round-robin", 11) || -- 2.25.1