- drop explicit MAX sizes like
static const struct nla_policy policy[IFLA_INET6_MAX+1] = {
The compiler will deduce that.
It saves redundant information (which is possibly wrong). Also,
the max define might be larger than we actually need it, so we
just waste a few bytes of static memory and do unnecesary steps
during validation.
Also, the compiler will catch bugs, if the array size of policy/tb
is too short for what we access later (-Warray-bounds).
- avoid redundant size specifiers like:
static const struct nla_policy policy[IFLA_INET6_MAX+1] = {
...
struct nlattr *tb[IFLA_INET6_MAX+1];
...
err = nla_parse_nested (tb, IFLA_INET6_MAX, attr, policy);
- use the nla_parse*_arr() macros that determine the maxtype
based on the argument types.
- move declaration of "static const struct nla_policy policy" variable
to the beginning, before auto variables.
- drop unneeded temporay error variables.
In the past, the headers "linux/if.h" and "net/if.h" were incompatible.
That means, we can either include one or the other, but not both.
This is fixed in the meantime, however the issue still exists when
building against older kernel/glibc.
That means, including one of these headers from a header file
is problematic. In particular if it's a header like "nm-platform.h",
which itself is dragged in by many other headers.
Avoid that by not including these headers from "platform.h", but instead
from the source files where needed (or possibly from less popular header
files).
Currently there is no problem. However, this allows an unknowing user to
include <net/if.h> at the same time with "nm-platform.h", which is easy
to get wrong.
