[PATCH net-next] net/dns_resolver: clean up and simplify dns_query()

From: Thorsten Blum

Date: Mon Mar 16 2026 - 17:42:05 EST


Fold the name length checks into a single early check, and use
kmemdup_nul() for name-only descriptions and snprintf() for
"<type>:<name>" descriptions to simplify dns_query().

Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@xxxxxxxxx>
---
Compile-tested only.
---
net/dns_resolver/dns_query.c | 40 ++++++++++++++----------------------
1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/dns_resolver/dns_query.c b/net/dns_resolver/dns_query.c
index 53da62984447..3bdea41a2367 100644
--- a/net/dns_resolver/dns_query.c
+++ b/net/dns_resolver/dns_query.c
@@ -78,43 +78,33 @@ int dns_query(struct net *net,
{
struct key *rkey;
struct user_key_payload *upayload;
- size_t typelen, desclen;
- char *desc, *cp;
+ char *desc;
int ret, len;

kenter("%s,%*.*s,%zu,%s",
type, (int)namelen, (int)namelen, name, namelen, options);

- if (!name || namelen == 0)
+ if (!name || namelen < 3 || namelen > 255)
return -EINVAL;

/* construct the query key description as "[<type>:]<name>" */
- typelen = 0;
- desclen = 0;
- if (type) {
- typelen = strlen(type);
- if (typelen < 1)
+ if (!type) {
+ desc = kmemdup_nul(name, namelen, GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!desc)
+ return -ENOMEM;
+ } else {
+ size_t desclen = strlen(type);
+
+ if (desclen == 0)
return -EINVAL;
- desclen += typelen + 1;
- }
-
- if (namelen < 3 || namelen > 255)
- return -EINVAL;
- desclen += namelen + 1;

- desc = kmalloc(desclen, GFP_KERNEL);
- if (!desc)
- return -ENOMEM;
+ desclen += 1 + namelen + 1;
+ desc = kmalloc(desclen, GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!desc)
+ return -ENOMEM;

- cp = desc;
- if (type) {
- memcpy(cp, type, typelen);
- cp += typelen;
- *cp++ = ':';
+ snprintf(desc, desclen, "%s:%.*s", type, (int)namelen, name);
}
- memcpy(cp, name, namelen);
- cp += namelen;
- *cp = '\0';

if (!options)
options = "";