With pe data traveling between master and backup, strcmp should not be used. How knows what size it will have in future. To be safe use strncmp. Signed-off-by: Hans Schillstrom <hans.schillstrom@xxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_pe.c | 4 ++-- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_pe.c b/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_pe.c index 3414af7..baab44f 100644 --- a/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_pe.c +++ b/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_pe.c @@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ ip_vs_pe_getbyname(const char *pe_name) /* This pe is just deleted */ continue; } - if (strcmp(pe_name, pe->name)==0) { + if (strncmp(pe_name, pe->name, IP_VS_PENAME_MAXLEN )==0) { /* HIT */ spin_unlock_bh(&ip_vs_pe_lock); return pe; @@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ int register_ip_vs_pe(struct ip_vs_pe *pe) * in the pe list. */ list_for_each_entry(tmp, &ip_vs_pe, n_list) { - if (strcmp(tmp->name, pe->name) == 0) { + if (strncmp(tmp->name, pe->name, IP_VS_PENAME_MAXLEN) == 0) { spin_unlock_bh(&ip_vs_pe_lock); ip_vs_use_count_dec(); pr_err("%s(): [%s] pe already existed " -- 1.6.0.2 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe lvs-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html