network/sysctl-monitor: fix sanity check in cut_last()

This also adds basic comment about the return code.

Follow-up for 6d9ef22acdeac4b429efb75164341233955484af.

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/src/network/bpf/sysctl_monitor/sysctl-monitor.bpf.c b/src/network/bpf/sysctl_monitor/sysctl-monitor.bpf.c
index ef154931ce..e0ec8489d2 100644
--- a/src/network/bpf/sysctl_monitor/sysctl-monitor.bpf.c
+++ b/src/network/bpf/sysctl_monitor/sysctl-monitor.bpf.c
@@ -36,23 +36,22 @@ struct str {
 static long cut_last(u32 i, struct str *str) {
         char *s;
 
-        i = str->l - i - 1;
-        s = str->s + i;
-
         /* Sanity check for the preverifier */
         if (i >= str->l)
-                return 1;
+                return 1; /* exit from the loop */
+
+        i = str->l - i - 1;
+        s = str->s + i;
 
         if (*s == 0)
-                return 0;
+                return 0; /* continue */
 
         if (*s == '\n' || *s == '\r' || *s == ' ' || *s == '\t') {
                 *s = 0;
-
-                return 0;
+                return 0; /* continue */
         }
 
-        return 1;
+        return 1; /* exit from the loop */
 }
 
 /* Cut off trailing whitespace and newlines */