On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 12:43:04PM +0000, Fabien Siron wrote:
> Since our target is not in the same process, the netlink macros NLMSG_*
> must be rewritten for strace.
> 
> * netlink.c (nlmsg_ok, nlmsg_next): New functions.
> ---
>  netlink.c | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 26 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/netlink.c b/netlink.c
> index 30116dd..c1a9ad4 100644
> --- a/netlink.c
> +++ b/netlink.c
> @@ -31,6 +31,32 @@
>  #include "xlat/netlink_flags.h"
>  #include "xlat/netlink_types.h"
>  
> +/* since our target is not in the same process, here are some utils for 
> nlmsg */
> +static int
> +nlmsg_ok(struct tcb *tcp, unsigned long nlh, unsigned long len) {
> +     struct nlmsghdr nlmsghdr;
> +
> +     if (umoven(tcp, nlh, sizeof(struct nlmsghdr), &nlmsghdr) == -1)
> +             return 0;
> +
> +     return (len >= (int)sizeof(struct nlmsghdr)) &&

Shouldn't umoven be skipped if this condition is false?

> +             nlmsghdr.nlmsg_len >= sizeof(struct nlmsghdr) &&
> +             nlmsghdr.nlmsg_len <= len;
> +}
> +
> +static unsigned long
> +nlmsg_next(struct tcb *tcp, unsigned long nlh, unsigned long *len) {
> +     struct nlmsghdr nlmsghdr;
> +
> +     if (umoven(tcp, nlh, sizeof(struct nlmsghdr), &nlmsghdr) == -1)
> +             return 0;
> +
> +     *len -= NLMSG_ALIGN(nlmsghdr.nlmsg_len);
> +
> +     return (unsigned long)
> +             ((char *)(nlh) + NLMSG_ALIGN(nlmsghdr.nlmsg_len));
> +}
> +
>  void
>  decode_netlink(struct tcb *tcp, unsigned long addr, unsigned long size)
>  {

All these three functions (nlmsg_ok, nlmsg_next, and decode_netlink) fetch
struct nlmsghdr, and likely they fetch the same structure.  Couldn't this
inefficiency be avoided?


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