* [PATCHv2] ksmbd: remove extra byte from ipc_msg_alloc() size calculations
@ 2026-07-28 21:27 Rosen Penev
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From: Rosen Penev @ 2026-07-28 21:27 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-cifs
Cc: Namjae Jeon, Steve French, Sergey Senozhatsky, Tom Talpey,
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Three ipc_msg_alloc() calls in transport_ipc.c allocate
sizeof(struct) + payload_len + 1, but the extra byte is
unnecessary. The payload data is binary and copied with
memcpy() to the exact size; no null terminator is needed.
This was present in the original commit that introduced the
file, where the structs already used [0] zero-length arrays,
so the +1 was never correct.
Assisted-by: Opencode:Big-Pickle
Signed-off-by: Rosen Penev <rosenp@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: ChenXiaoSong <chenxiaosong@kylinos.cn>
---
v2: remove Fixes:
fs/smb/server/transport_ipc.c | 6 +++---
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/smb/server/transport_ipc.c b/fs/smb/server/transport_ipc.c
index 0c581b9624d3..41611c013d81 100644
--- a/fs/smb/server/transport_ipc.c
+++ b/fs/smb/server/transport_ipc.c
@@ -658,7 +658,7 @@ ksmbd_ipc_spnego_authen_request(const char *spnego_blob, int blob_len)
return NULL;
msg = ipc_msg_alloc(sizeof(struct ksmbd_spnego_authen_request) +
- blob_len + 1);
+ blob_len);
if (!msg)
return NULL;
@@ -839,7 +839,7 @@ struct ksmbd_rpc_command *ksmbd_rpc_write(struct ksmbd_session *sess, int handle
if (payload_sz > KSMBD_IPC_MAX_PAYLOAD)
return NULL;
- msg = ipc_msg_alloc(sizeof(struct ksmbd_rpc_command) + payload_sz + 1);
+ msg = ipc_msg_alloc(sizeof(struct ksmbd_rpc_command) + payload_sz);
if (!msg)
return NULL;
@@ -898,7 +898,7 @@ struct ksmbd_rpc_command *ksmbd_rpc_ioctl(struct ksmbd_session *sess, int handle
if (payload_sz > KSMBD_IPC_MAX_PAYLOAD)
return NULL;
- msg = ipc_msg_alloc(sizeof(struct ksmbd_rpc_command) + payload_sz + 1);
+ msg = ipc_msg_alloc(sizeof(struct ksmbd_rpc_command) + payload_sz);
if (!msg)
return NULL;
--
2.55.0
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