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authorMitch Williams <mitch.a.williams@intel.com>2013-11-28 06:39:39 +0000
committerJeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>2014-01-06 02:32:26 -0800
commit3197ce220c821b869731872251f2e225c37cbbb0 (patch)
tree1abee371dd5ede7eadd93037168a14eb79a98967 /drivers
parent5a9769c827151def466f7e65619bc6aac643cf96 (diff)
i40e: don't allocate zero size
Shockingly, the compiler didn't flag this uninitialized variable. This fixes a potential memory corruption condition where ARQ messages are written to random memory locations. Change-Id: Iac82f4562d2bf3f42df3f3b2163d9cbed2160135 Signed-off-by: Mitch Williams <mitch.a.williams@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com> Tested-by: Sibai Li <sibai.li@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c
index c0d7fe6ef2e..40484e01263 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c
@@ -4492,6 +4492,7 @@ static void i40e_clean_adminq_subtask(struct i40e_pf *pf)
if (!test_bit(__I40E_ADMINQ_EVENT_PENDING, &pf->state))
return;
+ event.msg_size = I40E_MAX_AQ_BUF_SIZE;
event.msg_buf = kzalloc(event.msg_size, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!event.msg_buf)
return;