cxgb3: avoid needless buffer copy for firmware
There's no reason to perform a buffer copy for the firmware name. This
also avoids a (currently impossible with current callers) NULL dereference
if there was no matching firmware.
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb3/cxgb3_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb3/cxgb3_main.c
index b96e4bf..8f7aa53 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb3/cxgb3_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb3/cxgb3_main.c
@@ -1025,19 +1025,19 @@
{
struct adapter *adapter = phy->adapter;
const struct firmware *fw;
- char buf[64];
+ const char *fw_name;
u32 csum;
const __be32 *p;
u16 *cache = phy->phy_cache;
- int i, ret;
+ int i, ret = -EINVAL;
- snprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), get_edc_fw_name(edc_idx));
-
- ret = request_firmware(&fw, buf, &adapter->pdev->dev);
+ fw_name = get_edc_fw_name(edc_idx);
+ if (fw_name)
+ ret = request_firmware(&fw, fw_name, &adapter->pdev->dev);
if (ret < 0) {
dev_err(&adapter->pdev->dev,
"could not upgrade firmware: unable to load %s\n",
- buf);
+ fw_name);
return ret;
}