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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>
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| ip_vs_app.c | ||
| ip_vs_conn.c | ||
| ip_vs_core.c | ||
| ip_vs_ctl.c | ||
| ip_vs_dh.c | ||
| ip_vs_est.c | ||
| ip_vs_fo.c | ||
| ip_vs_ftp.c | ||
| ip_vs_lblc.c | ||
| ip_vs_lblcr.c | ||
| ip_vs_lc.c | ||
| ip_vs_nfct.c | ||
| ip_vs_nq.c | ||
| ip_vs_pe_sip.c | ||
| ip_vs_pe.c | ||
| ip_vs_proto_ah_esp.c | ||
| ip_vs_proto_sctp.c | ||
| ip_vs_proto_tcp.c | ||
| ip_vs_proto_udp.c | ||
| ip_vs_proto.c | ||
| ip_vs_rr.c | ||
| ip_vs_sched.c | ||
| ip_vs_sed.c | ||
| ip_vs_sh.c | ||
| ip_vs_sync.c | ||
| ip_vs_wlc.c | ||
| ip_vs_wrr.c | ||
| ip_vs_xmit.c | ||
| Kconfig | ||
| Makefile | ||