netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] rtnetlink: Move nesting cancellation rollback to proper function

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Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2023 11:11:07 +0100
From: Simon Horman <simon.horman@...igine.com>
To: Gal Pressman <gal@...dia.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] rtnetlink: Move nesting cancellation rollback
 to proper function

On Thu, Jul 13, 2023 at 05:16:52PM +0300, Gal Pressman wrote:
> Make rtnl_fill_vf() cancel the vfinfo attribute on error instead of the
> inner rtnl_fill_vfinfo(), as it is the function that starts it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Gal Pressman <gal@...dia.com>
> ---
>  net/core/rtnetlink.c | 8 ++++----
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/net/core/rtnetlink.c b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
> index 3ad4e030846d..ed9b41ab9afc 100644
> --- a/net/core/rtnetlink.c
> +++ b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
> @@ -1343,7 +1343,7 @@ static noinline_for_stack int rtnl_fill_vfinfo(struct sk_buff *skb,
>  	vf_trust.setting = ivi.trusted;
>  	vf = nla_nest_start_noflag(skb, IFLA_VF_INFO);
>  	if (!vf)
> -		goto nla_put_vfinfo_failure;
> +		return -EMSGSIZE;
>  	if (nla_put(skb, IFLA_VF_MAC, sizeof(vf_mac), &vf_mac) ||
>  	    nla_put(skb, IFLA_VF_BROADCAST, sizeof(vf_broadcast), &vf_broadcast) ||
>  	    nla_put(skb, IFLA_VF_VLAN, sizeof(vf_vlan), &vf_vlan) ||
> @@ -1414,8 +1414,6 @@ static noinline_for_stack int rtnl_fill_vfinfo(struct sk_buff *skb,
>  
>  nla_put_vf_failure:
>  	nla_nest_cancel(skb, vf);
> -nla_put_vfinfo_failure:
> -	nla_nest_cancel(skb, vfinfo);

It seems that the vfinfo parameter of rtnl_fill_vfinfo() is now unused.
Can it be removed?

>  	return -EMSGSIZE;
>  }
>  
> @@ -1441,8 +1439,10 @@ static noinline_for_stack int rtnl_fill_vf(struct sk_buff *skb,
>  		return -EMSGSIZE;
>  
>  	for (i = 0; i < num_vfs; i++) {
> -		if (rtnl_fill_vfinfo(skb, dev, i, vfinfo, ext_filter_mask))
> +		if (rtnl_fill_vfinfo(skb, dev, i, vfinfo, ext_filter_mask)) {
> +			nla_nest_cancel(skb, vfinfo);
>  			return -EMSGSIZE;
> +		}
>  	}
>  
>  	nla_nest_end(skb, vfinfo);
> -- 
> 2.40.1
> 
>