netdev - Re: [PATCH V3 1/1] ipv6: Remove unnecessary test

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Date:	Wed, 26 Nov 2014 12:27:37 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	zyjzyj2000@...il.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, Yanjun.Zhu@...driver.com,
	honkiko@...il.com, opurdila@...acom.com, xemul@...nvz.org,
	cwang@...pensource.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH V3 1/1] ipv6: Remove unnecessary test

From: Zhu Yanjun <zyjzyj2000@...il.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2014 10:25:58 +0800

> The "init_net" test in function addrconf_exit_net is introduced
> in commit 44a6bd29 [Create ipv6 devconf-s for namespaces] to avoid freeing
> init_net. In commit c900a800 [ipv6: fix bad free of addrconf_init_net],
> function addrconf_init_net will allocate memory for every net regardless of
> init_net. In this case, it is unnecessary to make "init_net" test.
> 
> CC: Hong Zhiguo <honkiko@...il.com>
> CC: Octavian Purdila <opurdila@...acom.com>
> CC: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...nvz.org>
> CC: Cong Wang <cwang@...pensource.com>
> Suggested-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
> Signed-off-by: Zhu Yanjun <Yanjun.Zhu@...driver.com>

Applied, thanks.
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