linux-kernel - [PATCH net-next 3/8] ipv6: Use nlmsg

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Message-Id: <20250415-nlmsg_v2-v1-3-a1c75d493fd7@debian.org>
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2025 12:28:54 -0700
From: Breno Leitao <leitao@...ian.org>
To: kuniyu@...zon.com, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, 
 David Ahern <dsahern@...nel.org>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, 
 Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, 
 Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>, Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@...n.ch>
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, 
 Breno Leitao <leitao@...ian.org>, kernel-team@...a.com
Subject: [PATCH net-next 3/8] ipv6: Use nlmsg_payload in route file

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/route.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv6/route.c b/net/ipv6/route.c
index 210b84cecc242..e2c6c0b0684b2 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/route.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/route.c
@@ -6029,7 +6029,8 @@ static int inet6_rtm_valid_getroute_req(struct sk_buff *skb,
 	struct rtmsg *rtm;
 	int i, err;

-	if (nlh->nlmsg_len < nlmsg_msg_size(sizeof(*rtm))) {
+	rtm = nlmsg_payload(nlh, sizeof(*rtm));
+	if (!rtm) {
 		NL_SET_ERR_MSG_MOD(extack,
 				   "Invalid header for get route request");
 		return -EINVAL;
@@ -6039,7 +6040,6 @@ static int inet6_rtm_valid_getroute_req(struct sk_buff *skb,
 		return nlmsg_parse_deprecated(nlh, sizeof(*rtm), tb, RTA_MAX,
 					      rtm_ipv6_policy, extack);

-	rtm = nlmsg_data(nlh);
 	if ((rtm->rtm_src_len && rtm->rtm_src_len != 128) ||
 	    (rtm->rtm_dst_len && rtm->rtm_dst_len != 128) ||
 	    rtm->rtm_table || rtm->rtm_protocol || rtm->rtm_scope ||

-- 
2.47.1