From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> This patch looks like it should be in the 3.8-stable tree, should we apply it? ------------------ From: "Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>" commit deadcfc3324410726cd6a663fb4fc46be595abe7 upstream If user-space tries to create accounting object with an empty name, then return -EINVAL. Reported-by: Michael Zintakis <michael.zintakis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jonghwan Choi <jhbird.choi@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/netfilter/nfnetlink_acct.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_acct.c b/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_acct.c index 589d686..dc3fd5d 100644 --- a/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_acct.c +++ b/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_acct.c @@ -49,6 +49,8 @@ nfnl_acct_new(struct sock *nfnl, struct sk_buff *skb, return -EINVAL; acct_name = nla_data(tb[NFACCT_NAME]); + if (strlen(acct_name) == 0) + return -EINVAL; list_for_each_entry(nfacct, &nfnl_acct_list, head) { if (strncmp(nfacct->name, acct_name, NFACCT_NAME_MAX) != 0) -- 1.7.10.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html