Re: [patch 3/6] netfilter: limit the length of the helper name

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Holger Eitzenberger wrote:
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);

This appears to be an off-by-one. A strlen of exactly
NF_CT_HELPER_NAME_LEN - 1 would be fine, right?

No need to resend, just let me know whether I should change it.
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