Fix: do not attempt to read data from mailbox when length is 0

Also add a call to send a ping message in the inference_runner example
app.

Change-Id: Ia2b4abf5fec8285c320ec0f28df167ff2ea13d82
diff --git a/utils/inference_runner/inference_runner.cpp b/utils/inference_runner/inference_runner.cpp
index 17969da..f2e1fa1 100644
--- a/utils/inference_runner/inference_runner.cpp
+++ b/utils/inference_runner/inference_runner.cpp
@@ -207,6 +207,9 @@
     try {
         Device device;
 
+        cout << "Send Ping" << endl;
+        device.ioctl(ETHOSU_IOCTL_PING);
+
         cout << "Send version request" << endl;
         device.ioctl(ETHOSU_IOCTL_VERSION_REQ);