From 5176f91ea83f1a59eba4dba88634a4729d51d1ac Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Graf Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2006 20:13:18 -0700 Subject: [NETLINK]: Make use of NLA_STRING/NLA_NUL_STRING attribute validation Converts existing NLA_STRING attributes to use the new validation features, saving a couple of temporary buffers. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- net/netlink/genetlink.c | 10 ++++------ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) (limited to 'net/netlink') diff --git a/net/netlink/genetlink.c b/net/netlink/genetlink.c index d32599116c5..3ac942cdb67 100644 --- a/net/netlink/genetlink.c +++ b/net/netlink/genetlink.c @@ -455,7 +455,8 @@ static struct sk_buff *ctrl_build_msg(struct genl_family *family, u32 pid, static struct nla_policy ctrl_policy[CTRL_ATTR_MAX+1] __read_mostly = { [CTRL_ATTR_FAMILY_ID] = { .type = NLA_U16 }, - [CTRL_ATTR_FAMILY_NAME] = { .type = NLA_STRING }, + [CTRL_ATTR_FAMILY_NAME] = { .type = NLA_NUL_STRING, + .len = GENL_NAMSIZ - 1 }, }; static int ctrl_getfamily(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info) @@ -470,12 +471,9 @@ static int ctrl_getfamily(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info) } if (info->attrs[CTRL_ATTR_FAMILY_NAME]) { - char name[GENL_NAMSIZ]; - - if (nla_strlcpy(name, info->attrs[CTRL_ATTR_FAMILY_NAME], - GENL_NAMSIZ) >= GENL_NAMSIZ) - goto errout; + char *name; + name = nla_data(info->attrs[CTRL_ATTR_FAMILY_NAME]); res = genl_family_find_byname(name); } -- cgit v1.2.3-18-g5258