From 744b096e2b0976a10ae9a66aa6a3ae7fa4fce9f1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Graf Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2007 12:43:32 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] [WIRELESS]: Use type safe netlink interface Makes use of the type safe netlink interface and adds a warning if the message is too big for NLMSG_DEFAULT_SIZE to help debug. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf Signed-off-by: John W. Linville --- net/wireless/wext.c | 30 ++++++++++++++++-------------- 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/wireless/wext.c b/net/wireless/wext.c index d6aaf65192e..debf5191a12 100644 --- a/net/wireless/wext.c +++ b/net/wireless/wext.c @@ -1129,10 +1129,12 @@ static int rtnetlink_fill_iwinfo(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev, { struct ifinfomsg *r; struct nlmsghdr *nlh; - unsigned char *b = skb_tail_pointer(skb); - nlh = NLMSG_PUT(skb, 0, 0, type, sizeof(*r)); - r = NLMSG_DATA(nlh); + nlh = nlmsg_put(skb, 0, 0, type, sizeof(*r), 0); + if (nlh == NULL) + return -EMSGSIZE; + + r = nlmsg_data(nlh); r->ifi_family = AF_UNSPEC; r->__ifi_pad = 0; r->ifi_type = dev->type; @@ -1141,15 +1143,13 @@ static int rtnetlink_fill_iwinfo(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev, r->ifi_change = 0; /* Wireless changes don't affect those flags */ /* Add the wireless events in the netlink packet */ - RTA_PUT(skb, IFLA_WIRELESS, event_len, event); + NLA_PUT(skb, IFLA_WIRELESS, event_len, event); - nlh->nlmsg_len = skb_tail_pointer(skb) - b; - return skb->len; + return nlmsg_end(skb, nlh); -nlmsg_failure: -rtattr_failure: - nlmsg_trim(skb, b); - return -1; +nla_put_failure: + nlmsg_cancel(skb, nlh); + return -EMSGSIZE; } /* ---------------------------------------------------------------- */ @@ -1162,17 +1162,19 @@ rtattr_failure: static void rtmsg_iwinfo(struct net_device *dev, char *event, int event_len) { struct sk_buff *skb; - int size = NLMSG_GOODSIZE; + int err; - skb = alloc_skb(size, GFP_ATOMIC); + skb = nlmsg_new(NLMSG_DEFAULT_SIZE, GFP_ATOMIC); if (!skb) return; - if (rtnetlink_fill_iwinfo(skb, dev, RTM_NEWLINK, - event, event_len) < 0) { + err = rtnetlink_fill_iwinfo(skb, dev, RTM_NEWLINK, event, event_len); + if (err < 0) { + WARN_ON(err == -EMSGSIZE); kfree_skb(skb); return; } + NETLINK_CB(skb).dst_group = RTNLGRP_LINK; skb_queue_tail(&wireless_nlevent_queue, skb); tasklet_schedule(&wireless_nlevent_tasklet); -- 2.11.4.GIT