[PATCH 3/7] Audit: clean up audit_receive_skb

Eric Paris eparis at redhat.com
Thu May 28 23:22:55 UTC 2009


audit_receive_skb is hard to clearly parse what it is doing to the netlink
message.  Clean the function up so it is easy and clear to see what is going
on.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis at redhat.com>
---

 kernel/audit.c |   35 ++++++++++++++++++-----------------
 1 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/audit.c b/kernel/audit.c
index 00b8979..f5fd4b7 100644
--- a/kernel/audit.c
+++ b/kernel/audit.c
@@ -937,28 +937,29 @@ static int audit_receive_msg(struct sk_buff *skb, struct nlmsghdr *nlh)
 }
 
 /*
- * Get message from skb (based on rtnetlink_rcv_skb).  Each message is
- * processed by audit_receive_msg.  Malformed skbs with wrong length are
- * discarded silently.
+ * Get message from skb.  Each message is processed by audit_receive_msg.
+ * Malformed skbs with wrong length are discarded silently.
  */
 static void audit_receive_skb(struct sk_buff *skb)
 {
-	int		err;
-	struct nlmsghdr	*nlh;
-	u32		rlen;
+	struct nlmsghdr *nlh;
+	/*
+	 * len MUST be signed for NLMSG_NEXT to be able to dec it below 0
+	 * if the nlmsg_len was not aligned
+	 */
+	int len;
+	int err;
 
-	while (skb->len >= NLMSG_SPACE(0)) {
-		nlh = nlmsg_hdr(skb);
-		if (nlh->nlmsg_len < sizeof(*nlh) || skb->len < nlh->nlmsg_len)
-			return;
-		rlen = NLMSG_ALIGN(nlh->nlmsg_len);
-		if (rlen > skb->len)
-			rlen = skb->len;
-		if ((err = audit_receive_msg(skb, nlh))) {
+	nlh = nlmsg_hdr(skb);
+	len = skb->len;
+
+	while (NLMSG_OK(nlh, len)) {
+		err = audit_receive_msg(skb, nlh);
+		/* if err or if this message says it wants a response */
+		if (err || (nlh->nlmsg_flags & NLM_F_ACK))
 			netlink_ack(skb, nlh, err);
-		} else if (nlh->nlmsg_flags & NLM_F_ACK)
-			netlink_ack(skb, nlh, 0);
-		skb_pull(skb, rlen);
+
+		nlh = NLMSG_NEXT(nlh, len);
 	}
 }
 




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