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From: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev>
To: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
	Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@kernel.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
	Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>, Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>,
	"Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@kernel.org>
Cc: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev>,
	Tim Bird <tim.bird@sony.com>,
	keyrings@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH net-next v3 1/2] keys, dns: drop unused upayload->data NUL terminator
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2026 13:44:23 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260427114422.313356-3-thorsten.blum@linux.dev> (raw)

->data includes an extra NUL terminator despite never being used as a C
string and only accessing ->datalen bytes. Remove the redundant NUL
terminator and allocate one byte less in dns_resolver_preparse().

Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev>
---
Changes in v3:
- Update commit message
- v2: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20260409225703.158552-4-thorsten.blum@linux.dev/

Changes in v2:
- No changes in patch 1/2
- v1: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20260406175810.1018681-3-thorsten.blum@linux.dev/
---
 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");

             reply	other threads:[~2026-04-27 11:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-04-27 11:44 Thorsten Blum [this message]
2026-04-27 11:44 ` [PATCH net-next v3 2/2] KEYS: annotate struct user_key_payload with __counted_by Thorsten Blum

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