linux-kernel - [PATCH net-next 5/8] ipv4: Use nlmsg_payload in fib

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Message-Id: <20250415-nlmsg_v2-v1-5-a1c75d493fd7@debian.org>
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2025 12:28:56 -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 5/8] ipv4: Use nlmsg_payload in fib_frontend 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/ipv4/fib_frontend.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv4/fib_frontend.c b/net/ipv4/fib_frontend.c
index 3f4e629998fab..57f088e5540e2 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/fib_frontend.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/fib_frontend.c
@@ -948,12 +948,12 @@ int ip_valid_fib_dump_req(struct net *net, const struct nlmsghdr *nlh,
 	if (filter->rtnl_held)
 		ASSERT_RTNL();

-	if (nlh->nlmsg_len < nlmsg_msg_size(sizeof(*rtm))) {
+	rtm = nlmsg_payload(nlh, sizeof(*rtm));
+	if (!rtm) {
 		NL_SET_ERR_MSG(extack, "Invalid header for FIB dump request");
 		return -EINVAL;
 	}

-	rtm = nlmsg_data(nlh);
 	if (rtm->rtm_dst_len || rtm->rtm_src_len  || rtm->rtm_tos   ||
 	    rtm->rtm_scope) {
 		NL_SET_ERR_MSG(extack, "Invalid values in header for FIB dump request");

-- 
2.47.1