Re: [PATCH] ASoC: wcd934x: Fix a incorrect use of kstrndup

[Lars-Peter Clausen]

On 12/14/21 4:25 PM, Miaoqian Lin wrote:
> In wcd934x_codec_enable_dec(), widget_name is allocated by kstrndup().
> However, according to doc: "Note: Use kmemdup_nul() instead if the size
> is known exactly." So we should use kmemdup_nul() here instead of
> kstrndup(). It's similar to CVE-2019-12454.
>
> Signed-off-by: Miaoqian Lin <linmq006@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>   sound/soc/codecs/wcd934x.c | 2 +-
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/sound/soc/codecs/wcd934x.c b/sound/soc/codecs/wcd934x.c
> index e63c6b723d76..c6677cfbce59 100644
> --- a/sound/soc/codecs/wcd934x.c
> +++ b/sound/soc/codecs/wcd934x.c
> @@ -5005,7 +5005,7 @@ static int wcd934x_codec_enable_dec(struct snd_soc_dapm_widget *w,
>   	char *dec;
>   	u8 hpf_coff_freq;
>   
> -	widget_name = kstrndup(w->name, 15, GFP_KERNEL);
> +	widget_name = kmemdup_nul(w->name, 15, GFP_KERNEL);

Thinking a bit more about it, this is wrong. The source string is 
shorter than 15 character. So with this change you are copying past the 
end of the string, which depending on where in memory the string is 
placed can cause undefined behavior.