syzbot reports a warning: precision 33020 too large WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 9618 at lib/vsprintf.c:2471 set_precision+0x150/0x180 lib/vsprintf.c:2471 vsnprintf+0xa7b/0x19a0 lib/vsprintf.c:2547 kvasprintf+0xb2/0x170 lib/kasprintf.c:22 kasprintf+0xbb/0xf0 lib/kasprintf.c:59 hwsim_del_radio_nl+0x63a/0x7e0 drivers/net/wireless/mac80211_hwsim.c:3625 genl_family_rcv_msg_doit net/netlink/genetlink.c:672 [inline] ... entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x49/0xbe Thus it seems that kasprintf() with "%.*s" format can not be used for duplicating a string with arbitrary length. Replace it with kstrndup(). Reported-by: syzbot+6693adf1698864d21734@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Tuomas Tynkkynen <tuomas.tynkkynen@xxxxxx> --- Compile tested only. --- drivers/net/wireless/mac80211_hwsim.c | 12 ++++++------ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/mac80211_hwsim.c b/drivers/net/wireless/mac80211_hwsim.c index 7fe8207db6ae..7c4b7c31d07a 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/mac80211_hwsim.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/mac80211_hwsim.c @@ -3669,9 +3669,9 @@ static int hwsim_new_radio_nl(struct sk_buff *msg, struct genl_info *info) } if (info->attrs[HWSIM_ATTR_RADIO_NAME]) { - hwname = kasprintf(GFP_KERNEL, "%.*s", - nla_len(info->attrs[HWSIM_ATTR_RADIO_NAME]), - (char *)nla_data(info->attrs[HWSIM_ATTR_RADIO_NAME])); + hwname = kstrndup((char *)nla_data(info->attrs[HWSIM_ATTR_RADIO_NAME]), + nla_len(info->attrs[HWSIM_ATTR_RADIO_NAME]), + GFP_KERNEL); if (!hwname) return -ENOMEM; param.hwname = hwname; @@ -3691,9 +3691,9 @@ static int hwsim_del_radio_nl(struct sk_buff *msg, struct genl_info *info) if (info->attrs[HWSIM_ATTR_RADIO_ID]) { idx = nla_get_u32(info->attrs[HWSIM_ATTR_RADIO_ID]); } else if (info->attrs[HWSIM_ATTR_RADIO_NAME]) { - hwname = kasprintf(GFP_KERNEL, "%.*s", - nla_len(info->attrs[HWSIM_ATTR_RADIO_NAME]), - (char *)nla_data(info->attrs[HWSIM_ATTR_RADIO_NAME])); + hwname = kstrndup((char *)nla_data(info->attrs[HWSIM_ATTR_RADIO_NAME]), + nla_len(info->attrs[HWSIM_ATTR_RADIO_NAME]), + GFP_KERNEL); if (!hwname) return -ENOMEM; } else -- 2.17.1