linux-kernel - [PATCH net-next 6/9] ipv6: Use nlmsg_payload in inet6_valid_dump_ifaddr

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Message-Id: <20250411-nlmsg-v1-6-ddd4e065cb15@debian.org>
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2025 10:00:53 -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 6/9] ipv6: Use nlmsg_payload in
 inet6_valid_dump_ifaddr_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 9ba83f0c99283..a9aeb949d9c8e 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
@@ -5346,12 +5346,12 @@ static int inet6_valid_dump_ifaddr_req(const struct nlmsghdr *nlh,
 	struct ifaddrmsg *ifm;
 	int err, i;

-	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 address dump request");
 		return -EINVAL;
 	}

-	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 address dump request");
 		return -EINVAL;

-- 
2.47.1