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Date:   Wed, 20 Dec 2017 14:55:04 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     serhe.popovych@...il.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] dev: Correctly get length of alias string in
 dev_set_alias(),Re: [PATCH net-next] dev: Correctly get length of alias
 string in dev_set_alias()

From: Serhey Popovich <serhe.popovych@...il.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2017 21:44:46 +0200

> Sorry but I do not mean larger. I mean shorter. When nla_len() >
> strlen() we allocate extra space up to IFALIASZ - 1.

But the user typically does not do that.

> This is definitely fix nothing: we never get above the bounds, but
> in case if NULL terminator is in the middle of string with nla_len()
> we might allocate unused extra space.

See above, not worth optimizing for.