netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 1/2] net: sctp: remove sctp_ep

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Date:	Mon, 15 Apr 2013 14:14:05 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	dborkman@...hat.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-sctp@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/2] net: sctp: remove sctp_ep_common struct
 member 'malloced'

From: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@...hat.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2013 15:27:17 +0200

> There is actually no need to keep this member in the structure, because
> after init it's always 1 anyway, thus always kfree called. This seems to
> be an ancient leftover from the very initial implementation from 2.5
> times. Only in case the initialization of an association fails, we leave
> base.malloced as 0, but we nevertheless kfree it in the error path in
> sctp_association_new().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@...hat.com>

Applied.
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