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Petr Oros 6208658223 tools: ynl: fix string attribute length to include null terminator 
[ Upstream commit 65f9c4c588 ]

The ynl_attr_put_str() function was not including the null terminator
in the attribute length calculation. This caused kernel to reject
CTRL_CMD_GETFAMILY requests with EINVAL:
"Attribute failed policy validation".

For a 4-character family name like "dpll":
- Sent: nla_len=8 (4 byte header + 4 byte string without null)
- Expected: nla_len=9 (4 byte header + 5 byte string with null)

The bug was introduced in commit 15d2540e0d ("tools: ynl: check for
overflow of constructed messages") when refactoring from stpcpy() to
strlen(). The original code correctly included the null terminator:

  end = stpcpy(ynl_attr_data(attr), str);
  attr->nla_len = NLA_HDRLEN + NLA_ALIGN(end -
                                (char *)ynl_attr_data(attr));

Since stpcpy() returns a pointer past the null terminator, the length
included it. The refactored version using strlen() omitted the +1.

The fix also removes NLA_ALIGN() from nla_len calculation, since
nla_len should contain actual attribute length, not aligned length.
Alignment is only for calculating next attribute position. This makes
the code consistent with ynl_attr_put().

CTRL_ATTR_FAMILY_NAME uses NLA_NUL_STRING policy which requires
null terminator. Kernel validates with memchr() and rejects if not
found.

Fixes: 15d2540e0d ("tools: ynl: check for overflow of constructed messages")
Signed-off-by: Petr Oros <poros@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Ivan Vecera <ivecera@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ivan Vecera <ivecera@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20251018151737.365485-3-zahari.doychev@linux.com
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251024132438.351290-1-poros@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
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