From 1468331f9d8e8c78125c202c909f6f5fccf601df Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: oxBoni <godzilabozo@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2025 15:34:11 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] p2p/discover/v5wire: remove redundant bytes clone in
 WHOAREYOU encoding (#33180)

head.AuthData is assigned later in the function, so the earlier assignment
can safely be removed.
---
 p2p/discover/v5wire/encoding.go | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/p2p/discover/v5wire/encoding.go b/p2p/discover/v5wire/encoding.go
index 08292a70ba..d6a30a17ca 100644
--- a/p2p/discover/v5wire/encoding.go
+++ b/p2p/discover/v5wire/encoding.go
@@ -326,7 +326,6 @@ func (c *Codec) encodeWhoareyou(toID enode.ID, packet *Whoareyou) (Header, error
 
 	// Create header.
 	head := c.makeHeader(toID, flagWhoareyou, 0)
-	head.AuthData = slices.Clone(c.buf.Bytes())
 	head.Nonce = packet.Nonce
 
 	// Encode auth data.