This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled net/mlx5: Fix uninitialized variable bug in outlen_write() to the 6.0-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: net-mlx5-fix-uninitialized-variable-bug-in-outlen_wr.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.0 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit eb9b86fbeed453fbb8c9653f19e978f8fb83ff3d Author: YueHaibing <yuehaibing@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon Nov 21 19:22:04 2022 +0800 net/mlx5: Fix uninitialized variable bug in outlen_write() [ Upstream commit 3f5769a074c13d8f08455e40586600419e02a880 ] 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 <yuehaibing@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> 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)