diff --git a/drivers/gpu/nvgpu/common/nvs/nvs_sched.c b/drivers/gpu/nvgpu/common/nvs/nvs_sched.c
index 8675c682e..3697328d2 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/nvgpu/common/nvs/nvs_sched.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/nvgpu/common/nvs/nvs_sched.c
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
 #include <nvgpu/types.h>
 
 #include <nvgpu/nvs.h>
+#include <nvgpu/string.h>
 #include <nvgpu/kmem.h>
 #include <nvgpu/gk20a.h>
 #include <nvgpu/runlist.h>
@@ -33,6 +34,7 @@
 #ifdef CONFIG_NVGPU_GSP_SCHEDULER
 #include <nvgpu/gsp_sched.h>
 #endif
+
 static struct nvs_sched_ops nvgpu_nvs_ops = {
 	.preempt = NULL,
 	.recover = NULL,
@@ -879,6 +881,12 @@ int nvgpu_nvs_add_domain(struct gk20a *g, const char *name, u64 timeslice,
 		return -EINVAL;
 	}
 
+	err = nvgpu_string_validate(name);
+	if (err != 0) {
+		nvgpu_err(g, "Domain Name %s is Invalid.\n", name);
+		return err;
+	}
+
 	nvgpu_mutex_acquire(&g->sched_mutex);
 
 	if (nvs_domain_by_name(g->scheduler->sched, name) != NULL) {
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/nvgpu/common/utils/string.c b/drivers/gpu/nvgpu/common/utils/string.c
index 503f21bec..74bc71f64 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/nvgpu/common/utils/string.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/nvgpu/common/utils/string.c
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright (c) 2018-2021, NVIDIA CORPORATION.  All rights reserved.
+ * Copyright (c) 2018-2023, NVIDIA CORPORATION.  All rights reserved.
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a
  * copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"),
@@ -131,3 +131,29 @@ ret:
 	/* Return number of bytes (or chars) copied */
 	return nvgpu_safe_cast_u64_to_u32(strlen(dest));
 }
+
+s32 nvgpu_string_validate(const char *name)
+{
+	s32 i = 0;
+
+	/* Run the loop until '\0' is not found. */
+	while (name[i] != '\0') {
+		/* Imposed string max limit of 32. */
+		if (i > 31) {
+			return -EPERM;
+		}
+
+		if ((name[i] >= '0' && name[i] <= '9') ||
+			(name[i] >= 'A' && name[i] <= 'Z') ||
+			(name[i] >= 'a' && name[i] <= 'z') ||
+			(name[i] == '-') || (name[i] == '_')) {
+			i++;
+			continue;
+		} else {
+			return -EINVAL;
+		}
+
+	}
+
+	return 0;
+}
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/nvgpu/include/nvgpu/string.h b/drivers/gpu/nvgpu/include/nvgpu/string.h
index f5d0641c2..640a67c36 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/nvgpu/include/nvgpu/string.h
+++ b/drivers/gpu/nvgpu/include/nvgpu/string.h
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright (c) 2018-2022, NVIDIA CORPORATION.  All rights reserved.
+ * Copyright (c) 2018-2023, NVIDIA CORPORATION.  All rights reserved.
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a
  * copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"),
@@ -134,4 +134,16 @@ bool nvgpu_mem_is_word_aligned(struct gk20a *g, u8 *addr);
 u32 nvgpu_str_join(char *dest, u32 dest_len, const char **src_str_list,
 	u32 str_list_len, const char *joiner);
 
+/**
+ * @brief Validate the string.
+ *
+ * API helps to validate the string for filenames. It checks if string is having
+ * any of ([a-z], [A-Z], [0-9], -, _) characters.
+ *
+ * @param name [in] Pointer to filename string.
+ *
+ * @retval 0 if string is having only expected characters.
+ * @retval -EINVAL in case of failure.
+ */
+s32 nvgpu_string_validate(const char *name);
 #endif /* NVGPU_STRING_H */