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authorPhil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc>2017-07-27 16:56:39 +0200
committerPablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>2017-07-31 19:14:05 +0200
commit6e692678d74289d6129bbd4bb20bb9fe01278faa (patch)
treed333471bd44be2d8b03d77b0aaa8fc0c3e3d459c /net/netfilter/nf_tables_trace.c
parent591bb2789bc2a93f379b13d277f441f1b427102d (diff)
netfilter: nf_tables: No need to check chain existence when tracing
nft_trace_notify() is called only from __nft_trace_packet(), which assigns its parameter 'chain' to info->chain. __nft_trace_packet() in turn later dereferences 'chain' unconditionally, which indicates that it's never NULL. Same does nft_do_chain(), the only user of the tracing infrastructure. Hence it is safe to assume the check removed here is not needed. Signed-off-by: Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/netfilter/nf_tables_trace.c')
-rw-r--r--net/netfilter/nf_tables_trace.c13
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_tables_trace.c b/net/netfilter/nf_tables_trace.c
index e1b15e7a5793..0c3a0049e4aa 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nf_tables_trace.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nf_tables_trace.c
@@ -217,14 +217,11 @@ void nft_trace_notify(struct nft_traceinfo *info)
if (trace_fill_id(skb, pkt->skb))
goto nla_put_failure;
- if (info->chain) {
- if (nla_put_string(skb, NFTA_TRACE_CHAIN,
- info->chain->name))
- goto nla_put_failure;
- if (nla_put_string(skb, NFTA_TRACE_TABLE,
- info->chain->table->name))
- goto nla_put_failure;
- }
+ if (nla_put_string(skb, NFTA_TRACE_CHAIN, info->chain->name))
+ goto nla_put_failure;
+
+ if (nla_put_string(skb, NFTA_TRACE_TABLE, info->chain->table->name))
+ goto nla_put_failure;
if (nf_trace_fill_rule_info(skb, info))
goto nla_put_failure;