Hello! This is an experimental semi-automated report about issues detected by Coverity from a scan of next-20210608 as part of the linux-next scan project: https://scan.coverity.com/projects/linux-next-weekly-scan You're getting this email because you were associated with the identified lines of code (noted below) that were touched by commits: Mon Jun 7 12:41:10 2021 +0200 e2cf17d3774c ("netfilter: add new hook nfnl subsystem") Coverity reported the following: *** CID 1505167: Memory - corruptions (OVERRUN) /net/netfilter/nfnetlink_hook.c: 294 in nfnl_hook_dump_start() 288 289 nla_strscpy(name, nla[NFNLA_HOOK_DEV], sizeof(name)); 290 } 291 292 rcu_read_lock(); 293 /* Not dereferenced; for consistency check only */ vvv CID 1505167: Memory - corruptions (OVERRUN) vvv Overrunning callee's array of size 5 by passing argument "hooknum" (which evaluates to 255) in call to "nfnl_hook_entries_head". 294 head = nfnl_hook_entries_head(family, hooknum, net, name); 295 rcu_read_unlock(); 296 297 if (head && IS_ERR(head)) 298 return PTR_ERR(head); 299 If this is a false positive, please let us know so we can mark it as such, or teach the Coverity rules to be smarter. If not, please make sure fixes get into linux-next. :) For patches fixing this, please include these lines (but double-check the "Fixes" first): Reported-by: coverity-bot <keescook+coverity-bot@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Addresses-Coverity-ID: 1505167 ("Memory - corruptions") Fixes: e2cf17d3774c ("netfilter: add new hook nfnl subsystem") Thanks for your attention! -- Coverity-bot