linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] net: sunrpc: sizeof('\0') is 4, not 1

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Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2023 06:43:09 +0100
From: 
	Ahelenia Ziemiańska <nabijaczleweli@...ijaczleweli.xyz>
To: NeilBrown <neilb@...e.de>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@...merspace.com>, 
	Anna Schumaker <anna@...nel.org>, Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@...cle.com>, 
	Jeff Layton <jlayton@...nel.org>, Olga Kornievskaia <kolga@...app.com>, 
	Dai Ngo <Dai.Ngo@...cle.com>, Tom Talpey <tom@...pey.com>, 
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, 
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org, 
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: sunrpc: sizeof('\0') is 4, not 1

On Sat, Dec 16, 2023 at 03:27:16PM +1100, NeilBrown wrote:
> On Sat, 16 Dec 2023, Ahelenia Ziemiańska wrote:
> > To make it self-documenting, the referenced commit added the space
> > for the null terminator as sizeof('\0'). The message elaborates on
> > why only one byte is needed, so this is clearly a mistake.
> > Spell it as 1 /* NUL */ instead.
> > 
> > Fixes: commit 1e360a60b24a ("SUNRPC: Address  buffer overrun in
> >  rpc_uaddr2sockaddr()")
> It isn't clear to me that "Fixes" is appropriate as that patch isn't
> harmful, just confused and sub-optimal.
I definitely agree, I don't like Fixes here at all,
but I don't really see another trailer in the documentation
or in the log that could be used for this.

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