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Date:	Wed, 17 Apr 2013 11:35:26 -0400
From:	Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>
To:	Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@...hat.com>
Cc:	davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-sctp@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 7/9] net: sctp: sctp_bind_addr: remove dead code

On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 11:07:16PM +0200, Daniel Borkmann wrote:
> The sctp_bind_addr structure has a 'malloced' member that is
> always set to 0, thus in sctp_bind_addr_free() the kfree()
> part can never be called. This part is embedded into
> sctp_ep_common anyway and never alloced.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@...hat.com>
> ---
>  include/net/sctp/structs.h | 2 --
>  net/sctp/bind_addr.c       | 7 -------
>  2 files changed, 9 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/net/sctp/structs.h b/include/net/sctp/structs.h
> index 945e952..b4e9894 100644
> --- a/include/net/sctp/structs.h
> +++ b/include/net/sctp/structs.h
> @@ -1088,8 +1088,6 @@ struct sctp_bind_addr {
>  	 *	peer(s) in INIT and INIT ACK chunks.
>  	 */
>  	struct list_head address_list;
> -
> -	int malloced;	     /* Are we kfree()able?  */
>  };
>  
>  void sctp_bind_addr_init(struct sctp_bind_addr *, __u16 port);
> diff --git a/net/sctp/bind_addr.c b/net/sctp/bind_addr.c
> index d886b3b..41145fe 100644
> --- a/net/sctp/bind_addr.c
> +++ b/net/sctp/bind_addr.c
> @@ -131,8 +131,6 @@ int sctp_bind_addr_dup(struct sctp_bind_addr *dest,
>   */
>  void sctp_bind_addr_init(struct sctp_bind_addr *bp, __u16 port)
>  {
> -	bp->malloced = 0;
> -
>  	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&bp->address_list);
>  	bp->port = port;
>  }
> @@ -155,11 +153,6 @@ void sctp_bind_addr_free(struct sctp_bind_addr *bp)
>  {
>  	/* Empty the bind address list. */
>  	sctp_bind_addr_clean(bp);
> -
> -	if (bp->malloced) {
> -		kfree(bp);
> -		SCTP_DBG_OBJCNT_DEC(bind_addr);
> -	}
>  }
>  
>  /* Add an address to the bind address list in the SCTP_bind_addr structure. */
> -- 
> 1.7.11.7
> 
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Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>
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