Subject: Re: [PATCH net] netfilter: x_tables: avoid out-of-bounds reads in xt_request_find_match()

From: Florian Westphal <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2018 00:19:52 +0100

Eric Dumazet <[email-masked]> wrote:
> From: Eric Dumazet <[email-masked]>
> 
> It looks like syzbot found its way into netfilter territory.

Excellent.  This will sure allow to find and fix more bugs :-)

> Issue here is that @name comes from user space and might
> not be null terminated.

Indeed, thanks for fixing this Eric.

xt_find_target() and xt_find_table_lock() might have similar issues.