Re: [PATCH] include/net/genetlink.h: Allow genlmsg_cancel toaccept a NULL argument
From: David Miller
Date: Tue Feb 01 2011 - 17:53:39 EST
From: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 16:43:40 +0100 (CET)
> nlmsg_cancel can accept NULL as its second argument, so for similarity,
> this patch extends genlmsg_cancel to be able to accept a NULL second
> argument as well.
>
> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx>
I did a scan of all of the cases where this interface is used, and
I cannot find a situation where this capability would even be useful.
The use pattern is always:
hdr = genlmsg_put(skb, ...);
if (!hdr)
goto out;
NLA_PUT_*();
NLA_PUT_*();
....
return genlmsg_end(skb, hdr);
nla_put_failure:
genlmsg_cancel(skb, hdr);
out:
return -EWHATEVER;
Always, hdr will be non-NULL.
We have to allocate the header first, then put the netlink
attributes.
Looking over users of nlmsg_cancel(), the situation seems to
match identically.
Therefore, it seems to me that it makes more sense to remove
the NULL check from nlmsg_cancel() than to add the NULL check
to genlmsg_cancel().
Thanks.
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