Re: [PATCH v1] RDMA/sa_query: use validate not parser in ib_nl_is_good_resolve_resp

From: Lin Ma
Date: Sun Dec 31 2023 - 00:28:32 EST


Hello Leon,

> > The attributes array `tb` in ib_nl_is_good_resolve_resp is never used
> > after the parsing. Therefore use nla_validate_deprecated function here
> > for improvement.
>
> What did this change improve?
>

To my concern, the nla_validate_deprecated, compared to nla_parse_deprecated,
will at lease save a memset in function nla_parse_deprecated

```
if (tb)
memset(tb, 0, sizeof(struct nlattr *) * (maxtype + 1));
```

Morever, because the `nla_validate_deprecated` just validate the attributes
array and will not try to retrieve the nla pointers. It shall be faster
and cleaner here :D.

Regards
Lin