netdev - [PATCH net-next] ipv6: Avoid going through ->sk

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Date:   Mon, 31 Jul 2017 10:09:41 +0200
From:   Jakub Sitnicki <jkbs@...hat.com>
To:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: [PATCH net-next] ipv6: Avoid going through ->sk_net to access the netns

There is no need to go through sk->sk_net to access the net namespace
and its sysctl variables because we allocate the sock and initialize
sk_net just a few lines earlier in the same routine.

Signed-off-by: Jakub Sitnicki <jkbs@...hat.com>
---
 net/ipv6/af_inet6.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv6/af_inet6.c b/net/ipv6/af_inet6.c
index a88b5b5..0a7c740 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/af_inet6.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/af_inet6.c
@@ -210,7 +210,7 @@ static int inet6_create(struct net *net, struct socket *sock, int protocol,
 	np->mcast_hops	= IPV6_DEFAULT_MCASTHOPS;
 	np->mc_loop	= 1;
 	np->pmtudisc	= IPV6_PMTUDISC_WANT;
-	np->autoflowlabel = ip6_default_np_autolabel(sock_net(sk));
+	np->autoflowlabel = ip6_default_np_autolabel(net);
 	sk->sk_ipv6only	= net->ipv6.sysctl.bindv6only;

 	/* Init the ipv4 part of the socket since we can have sockets
-- 
2.9.4