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authorJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>2015-01-16 22:09:00 +0100
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2015-01-18 01:03:45 -0500
commit053c095a82cf773075e83d7233b5cc19a1f73ece (patch)
treec787028efa9a73a182a0f338f87b6294cef4b8b9 /net/ieee802154
parentede58ef28e105de94475b2b69fa069c9a2ce6933 (diff)
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netlink: make nlmsg_end() and genlmsg_end() void
Contrary to common expectations for an "int" return, these functions return only a positive value -- if used correctly they cannot even return 0 because the message header will necessarily be in the skb. This makes the very common pattern of if (genlmsg_end(...) < 0) { ... } be a whole bunch of dead code. Many places also simply do return nlmsg_end(...); and the caller is expected to deal with it. This also commonly (at least for me) causes errors, because it is very common to write if (my_function(...)) /* error condition */ and if my_function() does "return nlmsg_end()" this is of course wrong. Additionally, there's not a single place in the kernel that actually needs the message length returned, and if anyone needs it later then it'll be very easy to just use skb->len there. Remove this, and make the functions void. This removes a bunch of dead code as described above. The patch adds lines because I did - return nlmsg_end(...); + nlmsg_end(...); + return 0; I could have preserved all the function's return values by returning skb->len, but instead I've audited all the places calling the affected functions and found that none cared. A few places actually compared the return value with <= 0 in dump functionality, but that could just be changed to < 0 with no change in behaviour, so I opted for the more efficient version. One instance of the error I've made numerous times now is also present in net/phonet/pn_netlink.c in the route_dumpit() function - it didn't check for <0 or <=0 and thus broke out of the loop every single time. I've preserved this since it will (I think) have caused the messages to userspace to be formatted differently with just a single message for every SKB returned to userspace. It's possible that this isn't needed for the tools that actually use this, but I don't even know what they are so couldn't test that changing this behaviour would be acceptable. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/ieee802154')
-rw-r--r--net/ieee802154/netlink.c12
-rw-r--r--net/ieee802154/nl-mac.c3
-rw-r--r--net/ieee802154/nl-phy.c3
-rw-r--r--net/ieee802154/nl802154.c6
4 files changed, 10 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/net/ieee802154/netlink.c b/net/ieee802154/netlink.c
index fa1464762d0d..c8133c07ceee 100644
--- a/net/ieee802154/netlink.c
+++ b/net/ieee802154/netlink.c
@@ -63,13 +63,9 @@ int ieee802154_nl_mcast(struct sk_buff *msg, unsigned int group)
struct nlmsghdr *nlh = nlmsg_hdr(msg);
void *hdr = genlmsg_data(nlmsg_data(nlh));
- if (genlmsg_end(msg, hdr) < 0)
- goto out;
+ genlmsg_end(msg, hdr);
return genlmsg_multicast(&nl802154_family, msg, 0, group, GFP_ATOMIC);
-out:
- nlmsg_free(msg);
- return -ENOBUFS;
}
struct sk_buff *ieee802154_nl_new_reply(struct genl_info *info,
@@ -96,13 +92,9 @@ int ieee802154_nl_reply(struct sk_buff *msg, struct genl_info *info)
struct nlmsghdr *nlh = nlmsg_hdr(msg);
void *hdr = genlmsg_data(nlmsg_data(nlh));
- if (genlmsg_end(msg, hdr) < 0)
- goto out;
+ genlmsg_end(msg, hdr);
return genlmsg_reply(msg, info);
-out:
- nlmsg_free(msg);
- return -ENOBUFS;
}
static const struct genl_ops ieee8021154_ops[] = {
diff --git a/net/ieee802154/nl-mac.c b/net/ieee802154/nl-mac.c
index 3c902e9516fb..9105265920fe 100644
--- a/net/ieee802154/nl-mac.c
+++ b/net/ieee802154/nl-mac.c
@@ -136,7 +136,8 @@ static int ieee802154_nl_fill_iface(struct sk_buff *msg, u32 portid,
}
wpan_phy_put(phy);
- return genlmsg_end(msg, hdr);
+ genlmsg_end(msg, hdr);
+ return 0;
nla_put_failure:
wpan_phy_put(phy);
diff --git a/net/ieee802154/nl-phy.c b/net/ieee802154/nl-phy.c
index 7baf98b14611..1b9d25f6e898 100644
--- a/net/ieee802154/nl-phy.c
+++ b/net/ieee802154/nl-phy.c
@@ -65,7 +65,8 @@ static int ieee802154_nl_fill_phy(struct sk_buff *msg, u32 portid,
goto nla_put_failure;
mutex_unlock(&phy->pib_lock);
kfree(buf);
- return genlmsg_end(msg, hdr);
+ genlmsg_end(msg, hdr);
+ return 0;
nla_put_failure:
mutex_unlock(&phy->pib_lock);
diff --git a/net/ieee802154/nl802154.c b/net/ieee802154/nl802154.c
index a25b9bbd077b..a4daf91b8d0a 100644
--- a/net/ieee802154/nl802154.c
+++ b/net/ieee802154/nl802154.c
@@ -306,7 +306,8 @@ static int nl802154_send_wpan_phy(struct cfg802154_registered_device *rdev,
goto nla_put_failure;
finish:
- return genlmsg_end(msg, hdr);
+ genlmsg_end(msg, hdr);
+ return 0;
nla_put_failure:
genlmsg_cancel(msg, hdr);
@@ -489,7 +490,8 @@ nl802154_send_iface(struct sk_buff *msg, u32 portid, u32 seq, int flags,
if (nla_put_u8(msg, NL802154_ATTR_LBT_MODE, wpan_dev->lbt))
goto nla_put_failure;
- return genlmsg_end(msg, hdr);
+ genlmsg_end(msg, hdr);
+ return 0;
nla_put_failure:
genlmsg_cancel(msg, hdr);