mirror of
https://mirrors.bfsu.edu.cn/git/linux.git
synced 2024-11-15 16:24:13 +08:00
053c095a82
Contrary to common expectations for an "int" return, these functions
return only a positive value -- if used correctly they cannot even
return 0 because the message header will necessarily be in the skb.
This makes the very common pattern of
if (genlmsg_end(...) < 0) { ... }
be a whole bunch of dead code. Many places also simply do
return nlmsg_end(...);
and the caller is expected to deal with it.
This also commonly (at least for me) causes errors, because it is very
common to write
if (my_function(...))
/* error condition */
and if my_function() does "return nlmsg_end()" this is of course wrong.
Additionally, there's not a single place in the kernel that actually
needs the message length returned, and if anyone needs it later then
it'll be very easy to just use skb->len there.
Remove this, and make the functions void. This removes a bunch of dead
code as described above. The patch adds lines because I did
- return nlmsg_end(...);
+ nlmsg_end(...);
+ return 0;
I could have preserved all the function's return values by returning
skb->len, but instead I've audited all the places calling the affected
functions and found that none cared. A few places actually compared
the return value with <= 0 in dump functionality, but that could just
be changed to < 0 with no change in behaviour, so I opted for the more
efficient version.
One instance of the error I've made numerous times now is also present
in net/phonet/pn_netlink.c in the route_dumpit() function - it didn't
check for <0 or <=0 and thus broke out of the loop every single time.
I've preserved this since it will (I think) have caused the messages to
userspace to be formatted differently with just a single message for
every SKB returned to userspace. It's possible that this isn't needed
for the tools that actually use this, but I don't even know what they
are so couldn't test that changing this behaviour would be acceptable.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
|
||
|---|---|---|
| .. | ||
| netfilter | ||
| addrconf_core.c | ||
| addrconf.c | ||
| addrlabel.c | ||
| af_inet6.c | ||
| ah6.c | ||
| anycast.c | ||
| datagram.c | ||
| esp6.c | ||
| exthdrs_core.c | ||
| exthdrs_offload.c | ||
| exthdrs.c | ||
| fib6_rules.c | ||
| icmp.c | ||
| inet6_connection_sock.c | ||
| inet6_hashtables.c | ||
| ip6_checksum.c | ||
| ip6_fib.c | ||
| ip6_flowlabel.c | ||
| ip6_gre.c | ||
| ip6_icmp.c | ||
| ip6_input.c | ||
| ip6_offload.c | ||
| ip6_offload.h | ||
| ip6_output.c | ||
| ip6_tunnel.c | ||
| ip6_udp_tunnel.c | ||
| ip6_vti.c | ||
| ip6mr.c | ||
| ipcomp6.c | ||
| ipv6_sockglue.c | ||
| Kconfig | ||
| Makefile | ||
| mcast.c | ||
| mip6.c | ||
| ndisc.c | ||
| netfilter.c | ||
| output_core.c | ||
| ping.c | ||
| proc.c | ||
| protocol.c | ||
| raw.c | ||
| reassembly.c | ||
| route.c | ||
| sit.c | ||
| syncookies.c | ||
| sysctl_net_ipv6.c | ||
| tcp_ipv6.c | ||
| tcpv6_offload.c | ||
| tunnel6.c | ||
| udp_impl.h | ||
| udp_offload.c | ||
| udp.c | ||
| udplite.c | ||
| xfrm6_input.c | ||
| xfrm6_mode_beet.c | ||
| xfrm6_mode_ro.c | ||
| xfrm6_mode_transport.c | ||
| xfrm6_mode_tunnel.c | ||
| xfrm6_output.c | ||
| xfrm6_policy.c | ||
| xfrm6_protocol.c | ||
| xfrm6_state.c | ||
| xfrm6_tunnel.c | ||