I looking at this code https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v4.6.7/source/Documentation/networking/timestamping/timestamping.c#L181
This code try to print the timestamp of packet using struct timespec *stamp = (struct timespec *)CMSG_DATA(cmsg);
If this is UDP packet.
Is there any way that CMSG_DATA(cmsg)
will return NULL?
CodePudding user response:
If you look at the definition of CMSG_DATA you see
#define CMSG_DATA(cmsg) ((void *)((char *)(cmsg) CMSG_ALIGN(sizeof(struct cmsghdr))))
This adds an offset to cmsg
.
Unless you manage to feed a cmsg
into that macro that evaluates to NULL
after adding that offset, the result can never be come NULL
.