commit b15ca182ed136087f6a2cb9ffe880c923f36a56e
author Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Wed Oct 26 10:53:16 2016 +0200
committer David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Sat Oct 29 14:57:42 2016 -0400
tree 9f5b9829fdeb6491eae3c19d92a1a3a80e19f31d
parent f8da977989c5d5d2f38e025d4ac1e18243723dbb

netlink: Add nla_memdup() to wrap kmemdup() use on nlattr

Wrap several common instances of:
	kmemdup(nla_data(attr), nla_len(attr), GFP_KERNEL);

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

include/net/netlink.h

diff --git a/include/net/netlink.h b/include/net/netlink.h
index 254a0fc..a34f53a 100644
--- a/include/net/netlink.h
+++ b/include/net/netlink.h
@@ -1191,6 +1191,16 @@
 }
 
 /**
+ * nla_memdup - duplicate attribute memory (kmemdup)
+ * @src: netlink attribute to duplicate from
+ * @gfp: GFP mask
+ */
+static inline void *nla_memdup(const struct nlattr *src, gfp_t gfp)
+{
+	return kmemdup(nla_data(src), nla_len(src), gfp);
+}
+
+/**
  * nla_nest_start - Start a new level of nested attributes
  * @skb: socket buffer to add attributes to
  * @attrtype: attribute type of container

net/sched/act_bpf.c

diff --git a/net/sched/act_bpf.c b/net/sched/act_bpf.c
index 1d39600..9ff06cf 100644
--- a/net/sched/act_bpf.c
+++ b/net/sched/act_bpf.c
@@ -226,9 +226,7 @@
 		return PTR_ERR(fp);
 
 	if (tb[TCA_ACT_BPF_NAME]) {
-		name = kmemdup(nla_data(tb[TCA_ACT_BPF_NAME]),
-			       nla_len(tb[TCA_ACT_BPF_NAME]),
-			       GFP_KERNEL);
+		name = nla_memdup(tb[TCA_ACT_BPF_NAME], GFP_KERNEL);
 		if (!name) {
 			bpf_prog_put(fp);
 			return -ENOMEM;

net/sched/cls_bpf.c

diff --git a/net/sched/cls_bpf.c b/net/sched/cls_bpf.c
index bb1d5a4..52dc85a 100644
--- a/net/sched/cls_bpf.c
+++ b/net/sched/cls_bpf.c
@@ -369,9 +369,7 @@
 		return PTR_ERR(fp);
 
 	if (tb[TCA_BPF_NAME]) {
-		name = kmemdup(nla_data(tb[TCA_BPF_NAME]),
-			       nla_len(tb[TCA_BPF_NAME]),
-			       GFP_KERNEL);
+		name = nla_memdup(tb[TCA_BPF_NAME], GFP_KERNEL);
 		if (!name) {
 			bpf_prog_put(fp);
 			return -ENOMEM;

net/wireless/nl80211.c

diff --git a/net/wireless/nl80211.c b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
index 271707d..0d3ab4b 100644
--- a/net/wireless/nl80211.c
+++ b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
@@ -10625,8 +10625,7 @@
 
 	i = 0;
 	nla_for_each_nested(attr, attr_filter, rem) {
-		filter[i].filter = kmemdup(nla_data(attr), nla_len(attr),
-					   GFP_KERNEL);
+		filter[i].filter = nla_memdup(attr, GFP_KERNEL);
 		filter[i].len = nla_len(attr);
 		i++;
 	}