There are two bug in this code: 1) If count is zero, then it will lead to a NULL dereference. The kmalloc() will successfully allocate zero bytes and the test for "if (buf[0] == '-')" will read beyond the end of the zero size buffer and Oops. 2) The code does not ensure that the user's string is properly NUL terminated which could lead to a read overflow. Fixes: a9996d722b11 ("scsi: scsi_debug: Add interface to manage error injection for a single device") Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> --- v2: At first I tried to use strndup_user() but that only accepts NUL terminated strings and the user string is normally not terminated. drivers/scsi/scsi_debug.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/scsi/scsi_debug.c b/drivers/scsi/scsi_debug.c index 67922e2c4c19..0dd21598f7b6 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/scsi_debug.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/scsi_debug.c @@ -1019,7 +1019,7 @@ static ssize_t sdebug_error_write(struct file *file, const char __user *ubuf, struct sdebug_err_inject *inject; struct scsi_device *sdev = (struct scsi_device *)file->f_inode->i_private; - buf = kmalloc(count, GFP_KERNEL); + buf = kzalloc(count + 1, GFP_KERNEL); if (!buf) return -ENOMEM; -- 2.42.0