linux-kernel - [PATCH net-next 7/9] ipv6: Use nlmsg_payload in inet6_rtm_valid_getaddr

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Message-Id: <20250411-nlmsg-v1-7-ddd4e065cb15@debian.org>
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2025 10:00:54 -0700
From: Breno Leitao <leitao@...ian.org>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, 
 Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, 
 Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>, 
 David Ahern <dsahern@...nel.org>
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, 
 Breno Leitao <leitao@...ian.org>
Subject: [PATCH net-next 7/9] ipv6: Use nlmsg_payload in
 inet6_rtm_valid_getaddr_req

Leverage the new nlmsg_payload() helper to avoid checking for message
size and then reading the nlmsg data.

Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@...ian.org>
---
 net/ipv6/addrconf.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
index a9aeb949d9c8e..4af2761795428 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
@@ -5484,7 +5484,8 @@ static int inet6_rtm_valid_getaddr_req(struct sk_buff *skb,
 	struct ifaddrmsg *ifm;
 	int i, err;

-	if (nlh->nlmsg_len < nlmsg_msg_size(sizeof(*ifm))) {
+	ifm = nlmsg_payload(nlh, sizeof(*ifm));
+	if (!ifm) {
 		NL_SET_ERR_MSG_MOD(extack, "Invalid header for get address request");
 		return -EINVAL;
 	}
@@ -5493,7 +5494,6 @@ static int inet6_rtm_valid_getaddr_req(struct sk_buff *skb,
 		return nlmsg_parse_deprecated(nlh, sizeof(*ifm), tb, IFA_MAX,
 					      ifa_ipv6_policy, extack);

-	ifm = nlmsg_data(nlh);
 	if (ifm->ifa_prefixlen || ifm->ifa_flags || ifm->ifa_scope) {
 		NL_SET_ERR_MSG_MOD(extack, "Invalid values in header for get address request");
 		return -EINVAL;

-- 
2.47.1