ceph_decode_32_safe(p, end, pool, bad);
                ceph_decode_32_safe(p, end, len, bad);
                dout("  pool %d len %d\n", pool, len);
+               ceph_decode_need(p, end, len, bad);
                pi = __lookup_pg_pool(&map->pg_pools, pool);
                if (pi) {
+                       char *name = kstrndup(*p, len, GFP_NOFS);
+
+                       if (!name)
+                               return -ENOMEM;
                        kfree(pi->name);
-                       pi->name = kmalloc(len + 1, GFP_NOFS);
-                       if (pi->name) {
-                               memcpy(pi->name, *p, len);
-                               pi->name[len] = '\0';
-                               dout("  name is %s\n", pi->name);
-                       }
+                       pi->name = name;
+                       dout("  name is %s\n", pi->name);
                }
                *p += len;
        }