The memdup_user() function does not necessarily return a NUL terminated
string so this can lead to a read overflow. Switch from memdup_user()
to strndup_user() to fix this bug.
Fixes: c6dc001f2add ("staging: r8712u: Merging Realtek's latest (v2.6.6).
Various fixes.")
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpen...@oracle.com>
---
drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_ioctl_linux.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_ioctl_linux.c
b/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_ioctl_linux.c
index 81de5a9e6b67..60dd798a6e51 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_ioctl_linux.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_ioctl_linux.c
@@ -924,7 +924,7 @@ static int r871x_wx_set_priv(struct net_device *dev,
struct iw_point *dwrq = (struct iw_point *)awrq;
len = dwrq->length;
- ext = memdup_user(dwrq->pointer, len);
+ ext = strndup_user(dwrq->pointer, len);
if (IS_ERR(ext))
return PTR_ERR(ext);
--
2.30.0
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