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Authored by brooks on Jun 28 2024, 2:08 PM.
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Summary

ioctl commands such as BIOCSETIF take a struct ifreq and due to
FreeBSD's ioctl implementation copy exactly sizeof(struct ifreq) bytes
in so allocate exactly that much space.

The over-allocaton was harmless, but useless.

Reported by: def
Fixes: e2dc8d789f68a dhclient: do not add 0.0.0.0 interface alias.
Sponsored by: DARPA, AFRL

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This was previously been fixed in f2c99d387c4770a7516237d5829b140e41a748d9 where the under allocation was potentially not harmless.

This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Jun 28 2024, 2:19 PM
This revision was automatically updated to reflect the committed changes.