netdev - [PATCH net-next 16/17] rxrpc: rxkad: Don't use pskb_pull() to advance through the response packet

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Date:   Mon, 23 Nov 2020 20:11:55 +0000
From:   David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     dhowells@...hat.com, linux-afs@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH net-next 16/17] rxrpc: rxkad: Don't use pskb_pull() to advance
 through the response packet

In the rxkad security class, don't use pskb_pull() to advance through the
contents of the response packet.  There's no point, especially as the next
and last access to the skbuff still has to allow for the wire header in the
offset (which we didn't advance over).

Better to just add the displacement to the next offset.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
---

 net/rxrpc/rxkad.c |    4 +---
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/rxrpc/rxkad.c b/net/rxrpc/rxkad.c
index f3182edfcbae..e5b4bbdd0f34 100644
--- a/net/rxrpc/rxkad.c
+++ b/net/rxrpc/rxkad.c
@@ -1162,8 +1162,6 @@ static int rxkad_verify_response(struct rxrpc_connection *conn,
 	if (skb_copy_bits(skb, sizeof(struct rxrpc_wire_header),
 			  response, sizeof(*response)) < 0)
 		goto protocol_error;
-	if (!pskb_pull(skb, sizeof(*response)))
-		BUG();
 
 	version = ntohl(response->version);
 	ticket_len = ntohl(response->ticket_len);
@@ -1194,7 +1192,7 @@ static int rxkad_verify_response(struct rxrpc_connection *conn,
 
 	eproto = tracepoint_string("rxkad_tkt_short");
 	abort_code = RXKADPACKETSHORT;
-	if (skb_copy_bits(skb, sizeof(struct rxrpc_wire_header),
+	if (skb_copy_bits(skb, sizeof(struct rxrpc_wire_header) + sizeof(*response),
 			  ticket, ticket_len) < 0)
 		goto protocol_error_free;