Commit 084d23f81832 for kernel
commit 084d23f818321390509e9738a0b08bbf46df6425
Author: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Date: Sat Jul 4 12:05:15 2026 +0200
netfilter: ebtables: module names must be null-terminated
We need to explicitly check the length, else we may pass non-null
terminated string to request_module().
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: bcf493428840 ("netfilter: ebtables: Fix extension lookup with identical name")
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
diff --git a/net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c b/net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c
index 48187598cdd0..96c9a8f57c87 100644
--- a/net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c
+++ b/net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c
@@ -403,6 +403,9 @@ ebt_check_match(struct ebt_entry_match *m, struct xt_mtchk_param *par,
left - sizeof(struct ebt_entry_match) < m->match_size)
return -EINVAL;
+ if (strnlen(m->u.name, XT_EXTENSION_MAXNAMELEN) == XT_EXTENSION_MAXNAMELEN)
+ return -EINVAL;
+
match = xt_find_match(NFPROTO_BRIDGE, m->u.name, m->u.revision);
if (IS_ERR(match) || match->family != NFPROTO_BRIDGE) {
if (!IS_ERR(match))