Re: [PATCH net-next v4] keys, dns: Drop unused NUL terminator from upayload->data

Simon Horman <[email protected]>
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.netdev,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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 <[email protected]>
> ---
> 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/[email protected]/

Separating this patch out makes sense to me.
And the updated patch description looks good.

Thanks.

Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <[email protected]>
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