ksmbd: remove extra byte from ipc_msg_alloc() size calculations

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Three ipc_msg_alloc() calls in transport_ipc.c allocate
sizeof(struct) + payload_len + 1, but the extra byte is
unnecessary. The payload data is binary and copied with
memcpy() to the exact size; no null terminator is needed.

This was present in the original commit that introduced the
file, where the structs already used [0] zero-length arrays,
so the +1 was never correct.

Assisted-by: Opencode:Big-Pickle
Signed-off-by: Rosen Penev <rosenp@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: ChenXiaoSong <chenxiaosong@kylinos.cn>
Signed-off-by: Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@kernel.org>

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Rosen Penev 2026-07-28 14:27:59 -07:00 • committed by Namjae Jeon

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