netdev - Re: [PATCH net] rxrpc: Fix an assertion in rxrpc

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Date:   Fri, 24 Feb 2017 11:21:40 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     dhowells@...hat.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-afs@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] rxrpc: Fix an assertion in rxrpc_read()

From: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2017 12:33:09 +0000

> From: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@...istor.com>
> 
> In the rxrpc_read() function, which allows a user to read the contents of a
> key, we miscalculate the expected length of an encoded rxkad token by not
> taking into account the key length.  However, the data is stored later
> anyway with an ENCODE_DATA() call - and an assertion failure then ensues
> when the lengths are checked at the end.
> 
> Fix this by including the key length in the token size estimation.
> 
> The following assertion is produced:
 ...
> Signed-off-by: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@...istor.com>
> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>

Applied.