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[v4,0/3] Fix inefficiences and rename nla_strlcpy

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Series Fix inefficiences and rename nla_strlcpy | expand

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Francis Laniel Oct. 30, 2020, 3:36 p.m. UTC 
From: Francis Laniel <laniel_francis@privacyrequired.com>

Hi.


I hope your relatives and yourselves are fine.

This patch set answers to first three issues listed in:
https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/110

To sum up, the first patch fixes an inefficiency where some bytes in dst were
written twice, one with 0 the other with src content.
The second one modifies nla_strlcpy to return the same value as strscpy,
i.e. number of bytes written or -E2BIG if src was truncated.
The third rename nla_strlcpy to nla_strscpy.

Unfortunately, I did not find how to create struct nlattr objects so I tested
my modifications on simple char* and withing GDB with tc to get to
tcf_proto_check_kind.
This is why I tagged this patch set as RFC.

If you see any way to improve the code or have any remark, feel free to comment.


Best regards and take care of yourselves.

Francis Laniel (3):
  Fix unefficient call to memset before memcpu in nla_strlcpy.
  Modify return value of nla_strlcpy to match that of strscpy.
  treewide: rename nla_strlcpy to nla_strscpy.

 drivers/infiniband/core/nldev.c            | 10 +++---
 drivers/net/can/vxcan.c                    |  4 +--
 drivers/net/veth.c                         |  4 +--
 include/linux/genl_magic_struct.h          |  2 +-
 include/net/netlink.h                      |  4 +--
 include/net/pkt_cls.h                      |  2 +-
 kernel/taskstats.c                         |  2 +-
 lib/nlattr.c                               | 42 ++++++++++++++--------
 net/core/fib_rules.c                       |  4 +--
 net/core/rtnetlink.c                       | 12 +++----
 net/decnet/dn_dev.c                        |  2 +-
 net/ieee802154/nl-mac.c                    |  2 +-
 net/ipv4/devinet.c                         |  2 +-
 net/ipv4/fib_semantics.c                   |  2 +-
 net/ipv4/metrics.c                         |  2 +-
 net/netfilter/ipset/ip_set_hash_netiface.c |  4 +--
 net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c              |  6 ++--
 net/netfilter/nfnetlink_acct.c             |  2 +-
 net/netfilter/nfnetlink_cthelper.c         |  4 +--
 net/netfilter/nft_ct.c                     |  2 +-
 net/netfilter/nft_log.c                    |  2 +-
 net/netlabel/netlabel_mgmt.c               |  2 +-
 net/nfc/netlink.c                          |  2 +-
 net/sched/act_api.c                        |  2 +-
 net/sched/act_ipt.c                        |  2 +-
 net/sched/act_simple.c                     |  4 +--
 net/sched/cls_api.c                        |  2 +-
 net/sched/sch_api.c                        |  2 +-
 net/tipc/netlink_compat.c                  |  2 +-
 29 files changed, 73 insertions(+), 61 deletions(-)