linux-kernel - [PATCH net-next 1/2] net: Use nlmsg

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Message-Id: <20250417-nlmsg_v3-v1-1-9b09d9d7e61d@debian.org>
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2025 06:03:07 -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>, 
 kuniyu@...zon.com
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, 
 Breno Leitao <leitao@...ian.org>, kernel-team@...a.com
Subject: [PATCH net-next 1/2] net: Use nlmsg_payload in neighbour 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/core/neighbour.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/core/neighbour.c b/net/core/neighbour.c
index 65cf582b5dacd..254067b719da3 100644
--- a/net/core/neighbour.c
+++ b/net/core/neighbour.c
@@ -2747,12 +2747,12 @@ static int neigh_valid_dump_req(const struct nlmsghdr *nlh,
 	if (strict_check) {
 		struct ndmsg *ndm;

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

-		ndm = nlmsg_data(nlh);
 		if (ndm->ndm_pad1  || ndm->ndm_pad2  || ndm->ndm_ifindex ||
 		    ndm->ndm_state || ndm->ndm_type) {
 			NL_SET_ERR_MSG(extack, "Invalid values in header for neighbor dump request");

-- 
2.47.1