linux-kernel - [patch] fix nla_policy_len to actually _iterate

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Date:	Mon, 28 Feb 2011 21:35:59 +0100
From:	Lars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg@...bit.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	trivial@...nel.org, Holger Eitzenberger <holger@...zenberger.org>,
	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...nel.org
Subject: [patch] fix nla_policy_len to actually _iterate_ over the policy

Currently nla_policy_len always returns n * NLA_HDRLEN:
It loops, but does not advance it's iterator.
NLA_UNSPEC == 0 does not contain a .len in any policy.

Trivially fixed by adding p++.

Signed-off-by: Lars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg@...bit.com>

diff --git a/lib/nlattr.c b/lib/nlattr.c
index 5021cbc..ac09f22 100644
--- a/lib/nlattr.c
+++ b/lib/nlattr.c
@@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ nla_policy_len(const struct nla_policy *p, int n)
 {
 	int i, len = 0;
 
-	for (i = 0; i < n; i++) {
+	for (i = 0; i < n; i++, p++) {
 		if (p->len)
 			len += nla_total_size(p->len);
 		else if (nla_attr_minlen[p->type])
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