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

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Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2023 15:27:16 +1100
From: "NeilBrown" <neilb@...e.de>
To: Ahelenia Ziemiańska <nabijaczleweli@...ijaczleweli.xyz>
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, 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.
> 
> This is the only result for git grep "sizeof.'" in the tree.
> 
> 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.
But it probably doesn't mattter.

Reviewed-by: NeilBrown <neilb@...e.de>

Thanks,
NeilBrown

> Signed-off-by: Ahelenia Ziemiańska <nabijaczleweli@...ijaczleweli.xyz>
> ---
>  net/sunrpc/addr.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/net/sunrpc/addr.c b/net/sunrpc/addr.c
> index d435bffc6199..c4ba342f6866 100644
> --- a/net/sunrpc/addr.c
> +++ b/net/sunrpc/addr.c
> @@ -311,7 +311,7 @@ size_t rpc_uaddr2sockaddr(struct net *net, const char *uaddr,
>  			  const size_t uaddr_len, struct sockaddr *sap,
>  			  const size_t salen)
>  {
> -	char *c, buf[RPCBIND_MAXUADDRLEN + sizeof('\0')];
> +	char *c, buf[RPCBIND_MAXUADDRLEN + 1 /* NUL */];
>  	u8 portlo, porthi;
>  	unsigned short port;
>  
> 
> base-commit: 26aff849438cebcd05f1a647390c4aa700d5c0f1
> -- 
> 2.39.2
>