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Re: [PATCH net] netfilter: xt_hashlimit: do not allow empty names

From: Eric Dumazet <hidden>
Date: 2018-01-28 17:54:09
Also in: netfilter-devel

On Sun, 2018-01-28 at 07:41 -0800, Eric Dumazet wrote:
From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>

Syzbot reported a WARN() in proc_create_data() [1]

Issue here is that xt_hashlimit does not check that user space provided
an empty table name.
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Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Reported-by: syzbot <redacted>
---
 net/netfilter/xt_hashlimit.c |    2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/net/netfilter/xt_hashlimit.c b/net/netfilter/xt_hashlimit.c
index 5da8746f7b88ff4c9446f256e542e823a6a561b0..eae732e013df92a364b500645360d4606c283a75 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/xt_hashlimit.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/xt_hashlimit.c
@@ -894,6 +894,8 @@ static int hashlimit_mt_check_common(const struct xt_mtchk_param *par,
 			return -ERANGE;
 	}
 
+	if (!name[0])
+		return -EINVAL;
 	mutex_lock(&hashlimit_mutex);
 	*hinfo = htable_find_get(net, name, par->family);
 	if (*hinfo == NULL) {
I wonder if we should also check if name includes a '/' ?

if (!name[0] || strchr(name, '/'))
    return -EINVAL;
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