- Userspace wants to write a string with `len` bytes, not counting the
terminating NULL, so we should allocate `len+1` bytes. It looks like the
current code relied on having a nullbyte directly behind `kern_buff`,
which happens to work reliably as long as `len` isn't one of the kmalloc
size classes.
- strncpy_from_user() is completely wrong here; userspace is giving us a
(not necessarily null-terminated) buffer and its length.
strncpy_from_user() is for cases in which we don't know the length.
- Don't let broken userspace allocate arbitrarily big kmalloc allocations.
Just use memdup_user_nul(), which is designed precisely for things like
this.
Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Acked-by: Jolly Shah <jolly.shah@xilinx.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Simek <michal.simek@xilinx.com>
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