Re: ipv4: Use standard iovec primitive in raw_probe_proto_opt

From: Al Viro
Date: Thu Nov 06 2014 - 01:43:27 EST


On Thu, Nov 06, 2014 at 01:50:23PM +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
> + /* We only need the first two bytes. */
> + err = memcpy_fromiovecend((void *)&icmph, msg->msg_iov, 0, 2);
> + if (err)
> + return err;
> +
> + fl4->fl4_icmp_type = icmph.type;
> + fl4->fl4_icmp_code = icmph.code;

That's more readable, but that exposes another problem in there - we read
the same piece of userland data twice, with no promise whatsoever that we'll
get the same value both times...
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