This code assumes that the user is going to give us a NULL terminated string which is not necessarily true. The original code was buggy too. Fix following coccicheck warning: ./drivers/staging/r8188eu/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c:4253:8-15: WARNING opportunity for memdup_user. Reported-by: Abaci Robot <abaci@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Fixes: 7bdedfef085b ("staging: r8188eu: Remove mp, a.k.a. manufacturing process, code") Signed-off-by: Jiapeng Chong <jiapeng.chong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Changes in v2: -For the follow advice:https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20211210083010.GM1956@kadam/ drivers/staging/r8188eu/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c | 13 ++++--------- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/r8188eu/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c b/drivers/staging/r8188eu/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c index 56adfe4087a8..5d26dffe5c0d 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/r8188eu/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c +++ b/drivers/staging/r8188eu/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c @@ -4250,17 +4250,12 @@ static int rtw_test( DBG_88E("+%s\n", __func__); len = wrqu->data.length; - pbuf = kzalloc(len, GFP_KERNEL); - if (!pbuf) { - DBG_88E("%s: no memory!\n", __func__); - return -ENOMEM; - } - - if (copy_from_user(pbuf, wrqu->data.pointer, len)) { - kfree(pbuf); + pbuf = strndup_user(wrqu->data.pointer, len); + if (IS_ERR(pbuf)) { DBG_88E("%s: copy from user fail!\n", __func__); - return -EFAULT; + return PTR_ERR(pbuf); } + DBG_88E("%s: string =\"%s\"\n", __func__, pbuf); ptmp = (char *)pbuf; -- 2.20.1.7.g153144c