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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/wireless/nl80211.c
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/wireless/nl80211.c')
-rw-r--r--net/wireless/nl80211.c27
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/net/wireless/nl80211.c b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
index 38078437..4ed9039 100644
--- a/net/wireless/nl80211.c
+++ b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
@@ -1721,7 +1721,8 @@ static int nl80211_send_wiphy(struct cfg80211_registered_device *rdev,
break;
}
finish:
- return genlmsg_end(msg, hdr);
+ genlmsg_end(msg, hdr);
+ return 0;
nla_put_failure:
genlmsg_cancel(msg, hdr);
@@ -2404,7 +2405,8 @@ static int nl80211_send_iface(struct sk_buff *msg, u32 portid, u32 seq, int flag
goto nla_put_failure;
}
- return genlmsg_end(msg, hdr);
+ genlmsg_end(msg, hdr);
+ return 0;
nla_put_failure:
genlmsg_cancel(msg, hdr);
@@ -3825,7 +3827,8 @@ static int nl80211_send_station(struct sk_buff *msg, u32 cmd, u32 portid,
sinfo->assoc_req_ies))
goto nla_put_failure;
- return genlmsg_end(msg, hdr);
+ genlmsg_end(msg, hdr);
+ return 0;
nla_put_failure:
genlmsg_cancel(msg, hdr);
@@ -4555,7 +4558,8 @@ static int nl80211_send_mpath(struct sk_buff *msg, u32 portid, u32 seq,
nla_nest_end(msg, pinfoattr);
- return genlmsg_end(msg, hdr);
+ genlmsg_end(msg, hdr);
+ return 0;
nla_put_failure:
genlmsg_cancel(msg, hdr);
@@ -5507,7 +5511,8 @@ static int nl80211_send_regdom(struct sk_buff *msg, struct netlink_callback *cb,
nla_put_flag(msg, NL80211_ATTR_WIPHY_SELF_MANAGED_REG))
goto nla_put_failure;
- return genlmsg_end(msg, hdr);
+ genlmsg_end(msg, hdr);
+ return 0;
nla_put_failure:
genlmsg_cancel(msg, hdr);
@@ -6577,7 +6582,8 @@ static int nl80211_send_bss(struct sk_buff *msg, struct netlink_callback *cb,
nla_nest_end(msg, bss);
- return genlmsg_end(msg, hdr);
+ genlmsg_end(msg, hdr);
+ return 0;
fail_unlock_rcu:
rcu_read_unlock();
@@ -6686,7 +6692,8 @@ static int nl80211_send_survey(struct sk_buff *msg, u32 portid, u32 seq,
nla_nest_end(msg, infoattr);
- return genlmsg_end(msg, hdr);
+ genlmsg_end(msg, hdr);
+ return 0;
nla_put_failure:
genlmsg_cancel(msg, hdr);
@@ -11025,7 +11032,8 @@ static int nl80211_send_scan_msg(struct sk_buff *msg,
/* ignore errors and send incomplete event anyway */
nl80211_add_scan_req(msg, rdev);
- return genlmsg_end(msg, hdr);
+ genlmsg_end(msg, hdr);
+ return 0;
nla_put_failure:
genlmsg_cancel(msg, hdr);
@@ -11048,7 +11056,8 @@ nl80211_send_sched_scan_msg(struct sk_buff *msg,
nla_put_u32(msg, NL80211_ATTR_IFINDEX, netdev->ifindex))
goto nla_put_failure;
- return genlmsg_end(msg, hdr);
+ genlmsg_end(msg, hdr);
+ return 0;
nla_put_failure:
genlmsg_cancel(msg, hdr);
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