This code assumes that the user is going to give us a NUL terminated
string which is not necessarily true.
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: 2b42bd58b321 ("staging: r8188eu: introduce new os_dep dir for RTL8188eu driver")
Signed-off-by: Jiapeng Chong <jiapeng.chong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Changes in v3:
-Delete useless printk, modified the commit message and fixes tag.
drivers/staging/r8188eu/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c | 14 +++-----------
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/staging/r8188eu/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c b/drivers/staging/r8188eu/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c
index 77728ba78d76..d8c28f279aa0 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/r8188eu/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/r8188eu/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c
@@ -4247,18 +4247,10 @@ static int rtw_test(
DBG_88E("+%s\n", __func__);
len = wrqu->data.length;
+ pbuf = strndup_user(wrqu->data.pointer, len);
+ if (IS_ERR(pbuf))
+ return PTR_ERR(pbuf);
- 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);
- DBG_88E("%s: copy from user fail!\n", __func__);
- return -EFAULT;
- }
DBG_88E("%s: string =\"%s\"\n", __func__, pbuf);
ptmp = (char *)pbuf;
--
2.20.1.7.g153144c
