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SubjectRE: Resend [PATCH] netfilter: Fix copy_to_user too small size parametre.
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> - if (copy_to_user(hlp, m->u.match->name,
> EBT_FUNCTION_MAXNAMELEN))
> + char name[EBT_FUNCTION_MAXNAMELEN] = {};
> +
> + strncpy(name, m->u.match->name, sizeof(name));
> + if (copy_to_user(hlp, name, EBT_FUNCTION_MAXNAMELEN))
> return -EFAULT;

strncpy() is very rarely the function you are looking for.
In this case it MIGHT be right (since you do a fixed size
copy_to_user).
OTOH there is no need to also initialise name[].
And it isn't entirely clear whether the application
is allowed to be given a non-terminated string.

David




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