netfilter: xtables: use memcmp in unconditional check

Instead of inspecting each u32/char open-coded, clean up and make use
of memcmp. On some arches, memcmp is implemented as assembly or GCC's
__builtin_memcmp which can possibly take advantages of known
alignment.

Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>

2 files changed, 6 insertions, 15 deletions

diff --git a/net/ipv4/netfilter/arp_tables.c b/net/ipv4/netfilter/arp_tables.c
index 7505dff4ffdf..b9f7243f4220 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/netfilter/arp_tables.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/netfilter/arp_tables.c
@@ -341,15 +341,11 @@ unsigned int arpt_do_table(struct sk_buff *skb,
 }
 
 /* All zeroes == unconditional rule. */
-static inline int unconditional(const struct arpt_arp *arp)
+static inline bool unconditional(const struct arpt_arp *arp)
 {
-        unsigned int i;
-
-        for (i = 0; i < sizeof(*arp)/sizeof(__u32); i++)
-                if (((__u32 *)arp)[i])
-                        return 0;
+        static const struct arpt_arp uncond;
 
-        return 1;
+        return memcmp(arp, &uncond, sizeof(uncond)) == 0;
 }
 
 /* Figures out from what hook each rule can be called: returns 0 if
diff --git a/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.c b/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.c
index 3856aa3f231e..3431a771ff1f 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.c
@@ -190,16 +190,11 @@ get_entry(void *base, unsigned int offset)
 
 /* All zeroes == unconditional rule. */
 /* Mildly perf critical (only if packet tracing is on) */
-static inline int
-unconditional(const struct ipt_ip *ip)
+static inline bool unconditional(const struct ipt_ip *ip)
 {
-        unsigned int i;
+        static const struct ipt_ip uncond;
 
-        for (i = 0; i < sizeof(*ip)/sizeof(__u32); i++)
-                if (((__u32 *)ip)[i])
-                        return 0;
-
-        return 1;
+        return memcmp(ip, &uncond, sizeof(uncond)) == 0;
 #undef FWINV
 }