Re: [PATCH] staging: r8188eu: Fix unsafe memory access by memcmp.

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Fri, Apr 01, 2022 at 04:12:47PM -0400, Charlie Sands wrote:
> This patch fixes sparse warnings about the memcmp function unsafely
> accessing userspace memory without first copying it to kernel space.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Charlie Sands <sandsch@northvilleschools.net>
> ---
>  drivers/staging/r8188eu/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c | 20 ++++++++++++--------
>  1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/r8188eu/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c b/drivers/staging/r8188eu/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c
> index 7df213856d66..1cfac1b27eb7 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/r8188eu/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/r8188eu/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c
> @@ -3233,23 +3233,27 @@ static int rtw_p2p_get(struct net_device *dev,
>  			       struct iw_request_info *info,
>  			       union iwreq_data *wrqu, char *extra)
>  {
> -	if (!memcmp(wrqu->data.pointer, "status", 6)) {
> +	char wrqu_data_ptr[9];
> +	if (copy_from_user(wrqu_data_ptr, wrqu->data.pointer, 9))
> +		return 0;

Please do not add checkpatch issues when trying to fix up other issues
:(

And that's a very odd variable name you are creating.  That is not a
pointer at all, and either way, it should not be part of a variable
name, this isn't Windows code :)

thanks,

greg k-h