Just using 'rem > 0' might be unsafe, so it's better
to use the nla_ok() instead.
Because we can see from the nla_next() that
'*remaining' might be smaller than 'totlen'. And nla_ok()
will avoid it happening.

Signed-off-by: Jiasheng Jiang <[email protected]>
---
 net/openvswitch/actions.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/openvswitch/actions.c b/net/openvswitch/actions.c
index 77d924a..116e38a 100644
--- a/net/openvswitch/actions.c
+++ b/net/openvswitch/actions.c
@@ -1238,7 +1238,7 @@ static int do_execute_actions(struct datapath *dp, struct 
sk_buff *skb,
        const struct nlattr *a;
        int rem;
 
-       for (a = attr, rem = len; rem > 0;
+       for (a = attr, rem = len; nla_ok(a, rem);
             a = nla_next(a, &rem)) {
                int err = 0;
 
-- 
2.7.4

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