From: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
To: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
Tim Bird <tim.bird@sony.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v4] keys, dns: Drop unused NUL terminator from upayload->data
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2026 11:04:55 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260810100455.GQ51943@horms.kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260806200454.245444-3-thorsten.blum@linux.dev>
On Thu, Aug 06, 2026 at 10:04:54PM +0200, Thorsten Blum wrote:
> 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/
Separating this patch out makes sense to me.
And the updated patch description looks good.
Thanks.
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-08-10 10:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-08-06 20:04 [PATCH net-next v4] keys, dns: Drop unused NUL terminator from upayload->data Thorsten Blum
2026-08-10 10:04 ` Simon Horman [this message]
2026-08-10 23:22 ` Jakub Kicinski
2026-08-10 23:30 ` patchwork-bot+netdevbpf
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