[3.7] bpo-35050: AF_ALG length check off-by-one error (GH-10058) #11069
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The length check for AF_ALG salg_name and salg_type had a off-by-one
error. The code assumed that both values are not necessarily NULL
terminated. However the Kernel code for alg_bind() ensures that the last
byte of both strings are NULL terminated.
Signed-off-by: Christian Heimes christian@python.org
(cherry picked from commit 2eb6ad8)
https://bugs.python.org/issue35050