netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: core: Remove redundant call to 'nf_reset' in 'dev_forward

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Date:	Thu, 28 Mar 2013 06:36:50 -0700
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Shmulik Ladkani <shmulik.ladkani@...il.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Ben Greear <greearb@...delatech.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Igor Michailov <rgohita@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: core: Remove redundant call to 'nf_reset' in
 'dev_forward_skb'

On Thu, 2013-03-28 at 11:13 +0200, Shmulik Ladkani wrote:
> 'nf_reset' is called just prior calling 'netif_rx'.
> No need to call it twice.
> 
> Reported-by: Igor Michailov <rgohita@...il.com>
> Signed-off-by: Shmulik Ladkani <shmulik.ladkani@...il.com>
> ---
>  net/core/dev.c |    1 -
>  1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
> index 2db88df..071f398 100644
> --- a/net/core/dev.c
> +++ b/net/core/dev.c
> @@ -1624,7 +1624,6 @@ int dev_forward_skb(struct net_device *dev, struct sk_buff *skb)
>  	}
>  
>  	skb_orphan(skb);
> -	nf_reset(skb);
>  
>  	if (unlikely(!is_skb_forwardable(dev, skb))) {
>  		atomic_long_inc(&dev->rx_dropped);

Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>


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