Re: [PATCH 1/2] taskstats: factor out reply assembling

[Shailabh Nagar]

Thomas Graf wrote:
> * Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> 2006-11-01 21:26
> > Introduce mk_reply() helper which does all nla_put()s on reply.
> >
> > Saves 453 bytes and a preparation for the next patch.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> >  taskstats.c |   55 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------------------
> >  1 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-)
> >
> > --- STATS/kernel/taskstats.c~5_factor	2006-10-31 16:33:56.000000000 +0300
> > +++ STATS/kernel/taskstats.c	2006-11-01 14:00:03.000000000 +0300
> > @@ -348,6 +348,25 @@ static int parse(struct nlattr *na, cpum
> >  	return ret;
> >  }
> >  
> > +static int mk_reply(struct sk_buff *skb, int type, u32 pid, struct taskstats *stats)
> > +{
> > +	struct nlattr *na;
> > +	int aggr;
> > +
> > +	aggr = TASKSTATS_TYPE_AGGR_TGID;
> > +	if (type == TASKSTATS_TYPE_PID)
> > +		aggr = TASKSTATS_TYPE_AGGR_PID;
> > +
> > +	na = nla_nest_start(skb, aggr);

	if (!na)
		goto nla_put_failure;

> > +	NLA_PUT_U32(skb, type, pid);
> > +	NLA_PUT_TYPE(skb, struct taskstats, TASKSTATS_TYPE_STATS, *stats);
> > +	nla_nest_end(skb, na);
> > +
> > +	return 0;
> > +nla_put_failure:
> > +	return -1;
> > +}
>
> 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.

Thanks for catching that bug which was present in the unrefactored code.
The error path from prepare_reply() which generates the skb is being
handled already.

But as you point out, nla_nest_start failure, unlike those of the NLA_PUT_*
macros, isn't handled by having a nla_put_failure label alone. So we'll
need to add something like the above since we certainly don't want a BUG()
on failure !

Thanks,
Shailabh


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