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Date:   Tue, 22 Nov 2022 21:01:55 -0800
From:   Saeed Mahameed <saeed@kernel.org>
To:     YueHaibing <yuehaibing@huawei.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH net] net/mlx5: Fix uninitialized variable bug in
 outlen_write()
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On 21 Nov 19:22, YueHaibing wrote:
>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@huawei.com>
>

applied to net-mlx5, thanks !