netdev - [PATCH net-next 1/2] l2tp: remove useless duplicate session detection in l2tp

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Date:   Tue, 11 Apr 2017 13:12:13 +0200
From:   Guillaume Nault <g.nault@...halink.fr>
To:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     James Chapman <jchapman@...alix.com>
Subject: [PATCH net-next 1/2] l2tp: remove useless duplicate session
 detection in l2tp_netlink

There's no point in checking for duplicate sessions at the beginning of
l2tp_nl_cmd_session_create(); the ->session_create() callbacks already
return -EEXIST when the session already exists.

Furthermore, even if l2tp_session_find() returns NULL, a new session
might be created right after the test. So relying on ->session_create()
to avoid duplicate session is the only sane behaviour.

Signed-off-by: Guillaume Nault <g.nault@...halink.fr>
---
 net/l2tp/l2tp_netlink.c | 5 -----
 1 file changed, 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/l2tp/l2tp_netlink.c b/net/l2tp/l2tp_netlink.c
index 7e3e669baac4..12cfcd0ca807 100644
--- a/net/l2tp/l2tp_netlink.c
+++ b/net/l2tp/l2tp_netlink.c
@@ -521,11 +521,6 @@ static int l2tp_nl_cmd_session_create(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *inf
 		goto out;
 	}
 	session_id = nla_get_u32(info->attrs[L2TP_ATTR_SESSION_ID]);
-	session = l2tp_session_find(net, tunnel, session_id);
-	if (session) {
-		ret = -EEXIST;
-		goto out;
-	}
 
 	if (!info->attrs[L2TP_ATTR_PEER_SESSION_ID]) {
 		ret = -EINVAL;
-- 
2.11.0