upayload->data includes an extra NUL terminator even though it is never
used as a C string. In-tree users access only the first
upayload->datalen bytes.
Remove the redundant NUL terminator and allocate one byte less for
upayload->data in dns_resolver_preparse().
Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev>
---
Changes in v4:
- Drop patch 2/2 from the series and submit 1/2 as a standalone patch
- Reword subject and patch description
- v3: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260427114422.313356-3-thorsten.blum@linux.dev/ (local)
Changes in v3:
- Update commit message
- v2: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260409225703.158552-4-thorsten.blum@linux.dev/ (local)
Changes in v2:
- No changes in patch 1/2
- v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260406175810.1018681-3-thorsten.blum@linux.dev/ (local)
---
net/dns_resolver/dns_key.c | 3 +--
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/dns_resolver/dns_key.c b/net/dns_resolver/dns_key.c
index c3c8c3240ef9..451247864a63 100644
--- a/net/dns_resolver/dns_key.c
+++ b/net/dns_resolver/dns_key.c
@@ -203,7 +203,7 @@ dns_resolver_preparse(struct key_preparsed_payload *prep)
kdebug("store result");
prep->quotalen = result_len;
- upayload = kmalloc_flex(*upayload, data, result_len + 1);
+ upayload = kmalloc_flex(*upayload, data, result_len);
if (!upayload) {
kleave(" = -ENOMEM");
return -ENOMEM;@@ -211,7 +211,6 @@ dns_resolver_preparse(struct key_preparsed_payload *prep)
upayload->datalen = result_len;
memcpy(upayload->data, data, result_len);
- upayload->data[result_len] = '\0';
prep->payload.data[dns_key_data] = upayload;
kleave(" = 0");