netdev - RE: [PATCH 1/5] netfilter: ipset: fix interface comparision in hash-netiface sets

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Date:	Fri, 29 Jun 2012 16:41:16 +0100
From:	"David Laight" <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>
To:	<pablo@...filter.org>, <netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:	<davem@...emloft.net>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH 1/5] netfilter: ipset: fix interface comparision in hash-netiface sets

> From: Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>
> 
> ifname_compare() assumes that skb->dev is zero-padded,
> e.g 'eth1\0\0\0\0\0...'. This isn't always the case. e1000 driver does
> 
> strncpy(netdev->name, pci_name(pdev), sizeof(netdev->name) - 1);
> 
> in e1000_probe(), so once device is registered dev->name memory
contains
> 'eth1\0:0:3\0\0\0' (or something like that), which makes eth1 compare
fail.

strncpy() would normally zero-fill the destination buffer
(at least the libc version does).

So something else must be wrong.

	David


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