This is necessary in order to have an upper bound for Netlink message calculation, which is not a problem at all, as there are no helpers with a longer name. Signed-off-by: Holger Eitzenberger <holger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Index: net-next-2.6/include/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_helper.h =================================================================== --- net-next-2.6.orig/include/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_helper.h +++ net-next-2.6/include/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_helper.h @@ -14,6 +14,8 @@ struct module; +#define NF_CT_HELPER_NAME_LEN 16 + struct nf_conntrack_helper { struct hlist_node hnode; /* Internal use. */ Index: net-next-2.6/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_helper.c =================================================================== --- net-next-2.6.orig/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_helper.c +++ net-next-2.6/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_helper.c @@ -142,6 +142,7 @@ int nf_conntrack_helper_register(struct BUG_ON(me->expect_policy == NULL); BUG_ON(me->expect_class_max >= NF_CT_MAX_EXPECT_CLASSES); + BUG_ON(strlen(me->name) >= NF_CT_HELPER_NAME_LEN - 1); mutex_lock(&nf_ct_helper_mutex); hlist_add_head_rcu(&me->hnode, &nf_ct_helper_hash[h]); -- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html