[PATCH 3.13 258/259] dns_resolver: Null-terminate the right string

From: Kamal Mostafa
Date: Fri Aug 08 2014 - 16:46:48 EST


3.13.11.6 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

[ Upstream commit 640d7efe4c08f06c4ae5d31b79bd8740e7f6790a ]

*_result[len] is parsed as *(_result[len]) which is not at all what we
want to touch here.

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Fixes: 84a7c0b1db1c ("dns_resolver: assure that dns_query() result is null-terminated")
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/dns_resolver/dns_query.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/dns_resolver/dns_query.c b/net/dns_resolver/dns_query.c
index ede0e2d..2022b46 100644
--- a/net/dns_resolver/dns_query.c
+++ b/net/dns_resolver/dns_query.c
@@ -151,7 +151,7 @@ int dns_query(const char *type, const char *name, size_t namelen,
goto put;

memcpy(*_result, upayload->data, len);
- *_result[len] = '\0';
+ (*_result)[len] = '\0';

if (_expiry)
*_expiry = rkey->expiry;
--
1.9.1

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