Re: [PATCH net] tipc: Remove redundant call to TLV_SPACE()

From: Paolo Abeni
Date: Thu Nov 16 2023 - 04:46:41 EST


Hi,

On Tue, 2023-11-14 at 23:43 +0900, Shigeru Yoshida wrote:
> The purpose of TLV_SPACE() is to add the TLV descriptor size to the size of
> the TLV value passed as argument and align the resulting size to
> TLV_ALIGNTO.
>
> tipc_tlv_alloc() calls TLV_SPACE() on its argument. In other words,
> tipc_tlv_alloc() takes its argument as the size of the TLV value. So the
> call to TLV_SPACE() in tipc_get_err_tlv() is redundant. Let's remove this
> redundancy.
>
> Fixes: d0796d1ef63d ("tipc: convert legacy nl bearer dump to nl compat")
> Signed-off-by: Shigeru Yoshida <syoshida@xxxxxxxxxx>

The patch LGTM, but I think this is more a cleanup then a fix, please
re-submit it for net-next, dropping the Fixes tag (so it will not land
in stable tree).

With the above you can add:

Acked-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> net/tipc/netlink_compat.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/net/tipc/netlink_compat.c b/net/tipc/netlink_compat.c
> index 5bc076f2fa74..db0365c9b8bd 100644
> --- a/net/tipc/netlink_compat.c
> +++ b/net/tipc/netlink_compat.c
> @@ -167,7 +167,7 @@ static struct sk_buff *tipc_get_err_tlv(char *str)
> int str_len = strlen(str) + 1;
> struct sk_buff *buf;
>
> - buf = tipc_tlv_alloc(TLV_SPACE(str_len));
> + buf = tipc_tlv_alloc(str_len);
> if (buf)
> tipc_add_tlv(buf, TIPC_TLV_ERROR_STRING, str, str_len);
>