From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [patch 1/2] staging: r8188eu: get a string from the user correctly
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2014 10:40:39 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141031104039.GA27683@mwanda> (raw)
The original code had two bugs:
1) It didn't check if the string was zero length so it could oops when
it tried to dereference the ZERO_SIZE_PTR.
2) It didn't enforce that the string was NUL terminated.
It was also messy as pants.
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
---
I assume that hopefully the users were passing NUL terminated strings
and this patch to put a NUL terminator at the end doesn't change
anything. This is a static checker fix.
diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/os_dep/rtw_android.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/os_dep/rtw_android.c
index d9d55d1..b403178 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/os_dep/rtw_android.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/os_dep/rtw_android.c
@@ -162,22 +162,12 @@ int rtw_android_priv_cmd(struct net_device *net, struct ifreq *ifr, int cmd)
ret = -EFAULT;
goto exit;
}
- command = kmalloc(priv_cmd.total_len, GFP_KERNEL);
- if (!command) {
- DBG_88E("%s: failed to allocate memory\n", __func__);
- ret = -ENOMEM;
- goto exit;
- }
- if (!access_ok(VERIFY_READ, priv_cmd.buf, priv_cmd.total_len)) {
- DBG_88E("%s: failed to access memory\n", __func__);
- ret = -EFAULT;
- goto exit;
- }
- if (copy_from_user(command, (char __user *)priv_cmd.buf,
- priv_cmd.total_len)) {
- ret = -EFAULT;
- goto exit;
- }
+ if (priv_cmd.total_len < 1)
+ return -EINVAL;
+ command = memdup_user(priv_cmd.buf, priv_cmd.total_len);
+ if (IS_ERR(command))
+ return PTR_ERR(command);
+ command[priv_cmd.total_len - 1] = 0;
DBG_88E("%s: Android private cmd \"%s\" on %s\n",
__func__, command, ifr->ifr_name);
cmd_num = rtw_android_cmdstr_to_num(command);
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