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authorJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>2018-09-26 11:15:30 +0200
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2018-09-28 10:24:39 -0700
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netlink: remove NLA_NESTED_COMPAT
This isn't used anywhere, so we might as well get rid of it. Reviewed-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/nlattr.c')
-rw-r--r--lib/nlattr.c11
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/lib/nlattr.c b/lib/nlattr.c
index bb6fe5ed4ecf..120ad569e13d 100644
--- a/lib/nlattr.c
+++ b/lib/nlattr.c
@@ -140,17 +140,6 @@ static int validate_nla(const struct nlattr *nla, int maxtype,
return -ERANGE;
break;
- case NLA_NESTED_COMPAT:
- if (attrlen < pt->len)
- return -ERANGE;
- if (attrlen < NLA_ALIGN(pt->len))
- break;
- if (attrlen < NLA_ALIGN(pt->len) + NLA_HDRLEN)
- return -ERANGE;
- nla = nla_data(nla) + NLA_ALIGN(pt->len);
- if (attrlen < NLA_ALIGN(pt->len) + NLA_HDRLEN + nla_len(nla))
- return -ERANGE;
- break;
case NLA_NESTED:
/* a nested attributes is allowed to be empty; if its not,
* it must have a size of at least NLA_HDRLEN.