From 37167485302c8876cb0303af113696e88c2945aa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2006 20:36:55 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] [PATCH] taskstats: cleanup reply assembling
Thomas Graf wrote:
>
> nla_nest_start() may return NULL, either rely on prepare_reply() to be
> correct and BUG() on failure or do proper error handling for all
> functions.
nla_put() in taskstat.c can fail only if the 'size' argument of alloc_skb()
was not right. This is a kernel bug, we should not hide it. So add 'BUG()'
on error path and check for 'na == NULL'.
> genlmsg_cancel() is only required in error paths for dumping
> procedures.
So we can remove 'genlmsg_cancel()' calls and 'void *reply' (saves 227 bytes).
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Cc: Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Jay Lan <jlan@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
---
kernel/taskstats.c | 38 ++++++++++++++++----------------------
1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/taskstats.c b/kernel/taskstats.c
index b0aad99c4f8d..4c3476fa058d 100644
--- a/kernel/taskstats.c
+++ b/kernel/taskstats.c
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ enum actions {
};
static int prepare_reply(struct genl_info *info, u8 cmd, struct sk_buff **skbp,
- void **replyp, size_t size)
+ size_t size)
{
struct sk_buff *skb;
void *reply;
@@ -94,7 +94,6 @@ static int prepare_reply(struct genl_info *info, u8 cmd, struct sk_buff **skbp,
}
*skbp = skb;
- *replyp = reply;
return 0;
}
@@ -351,11 +350,13 @@ static struct taskstats *mk_reply(struct sk_buff *skb, int type, u32 pid)
struct nlattr *na, *ret;
int aggr;
- aggr = TASKSTATS_TYPE_AGGR_TGID;
- if (type == TASKSTATS_TYPE_PID)
- aggr = TASKSTATS_TYPE_AGGR_PID;
+ aggr = (type == TASKSTATS_TYPE_PID)
+ ? TASKSTATS_TYPE_AGGR_PID
+ : TASKSTATS_TYPE_AGGR_TGID;
na = nla_nest_start(skb, aggr);
+ if (!na)
+ goto err;
if (nla_put(skb, type, sizeof(pid), &pid) < 0)
goto err;
ret = nla_reserve(skb, TASKSTATS_TYPE_STATS, sizeof(struct taskstats));
@@ -373,7 +374,6 @@ static int taskstats_user_cmd(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
int rc = 0;
struct sk_buff *rep_skb;
struct taskstats *stats;
- void *reply;
size_t size;
cpumask_t mask;
@@ -395,7 +395,7 @@ static int taskstats_user_cmd(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
size = nla_total_size(sizeof(u32)) +
nla_total_size(sizeof(struct taskstats)) + nla_total_size(0);
- rc = prepare_reply(info, TASKSTATS_CMD_NEW, &rep_skb, &reply, size);
+ rc = prepare_reply(info, TASKSTATS_CMD_NEW, &rep_skb, size);
if (rc < 0)
return rc;
@@ -404,27 +404,24 @@ static int taskstats_user_cmd(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
u32 pid = nla_get_u32(info->attrs[TASKSTATS_CMD_ATTR_PID]);
stats = mk_reply(rep_skb, TASKSTATS_TYPE_PID, pid);
if (!stats)
- goto nla_err;
+ goto err;
rc = fill_pid(pid, NULL, stats);
if (rc < 0)
- goto nla_err;
+ goto err;
} else if (info->attrs[TASKSTATS_CMD_ATTR_TGID]) {
u32 tgid = nla_get_u32(info->attrs[TASKSTATS_CMD_ATTR_TGID]);
stats = mk_reply(rep_skb, TASKSTATS_TYPE_TGID, tgid);
if (!stats)
- goto nla_err;
+ goto err;
rc = fill_tgid(tgid, NULL, stats);
if (rc < 0)
- goto nla_err;
+ goto err;
} else
goto err;
return send_reply(rep_skb, info->snd_pid);
-
-nla_err:
- genlmsg_cancel(rep_skb, reply);
err:
nlmsg_free(rep_skb);
return rc;
@@ -461,7 +458,6 @@ void taskstats_exit(struct task_struct *tsk, int group_dead)
struct listener_list *listeners;
struct taskstats *stats;
struct sk_buff *rep_skb;
- void *reply;
size_t size;
int is_thread_group;
@@ -486,17 +482,17 @@ void taskstats_exit(struct task_struct *tsk, int group_dead)
if (list_empty(&listeners->list))
return;
- rc = prepare_reply(NULL, TASKSTATS_CMD_NEW, &rep_skb, &reply, size);
+ rc = prepare_reply(NULL, TASKSTATS_CMD_NEW, &rep_skb, size);
if (rc < 0)
return;
stats = mk_reply(rep_skb, TASKSTATS_TYPE_PID, tsk->pid);
if (!stats)
- goto nla_err;
+ goto err;
rc = fill_pid(tsk->pid, tsk, stats);
if (rc < 0)
- goto nla_err;
+ goto err;
/*
* Doesn't matter if tsk is the leader or the last group member leaving
@@ -506,16 +502,14 @@ void taskstats_exit(struct task_struct *tsk, int group_dead)
stats = mk_reply(rep_skb, TASKSTATS_TYPE_TGID, tsk->tgid);
if (!stats)
- goto nla_err;
+ goto err;
memcpy(stats, tsk->signal->stats, sizeof(*stats));
send:
send_cpu_listeners(rep_skb, listeners);
return;
-
-nla_err:
- genlmsg_cancel(rep_skb, reply);
+err:
nlmsg_free(rep_skb);
}