netdev - [PATCH net-next 3/4] Revert "ipv4: keep skb->dst around in presence of IP options"

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Date:   Thu,  3 Aug 2017 18:07:07 +0200
From:   Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
To:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
Subject: [PATCH net-next 3/4] Revert "ipv4: keep skb->dst around in presence of IP options"

ip_options_echo() does not use anymore the skb->dst and don't
need to keep the dst around for options's sake only.
This reverts commit 34b2cef20f19c87999fff3da4071e66937db9644.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
---
 net/ipv4/ip_sockglue.c | 9 +--------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv4/ip_sockglue.c b/net/ipv4/ip_sockglue.c
index 1c3354d028a4..dd68a9ed5e40 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/ip_sockglue.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/ip_sockglue.c
@@ -1228,14 +1228,7 @@ void ipv4_pktinfo_prepare(const struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb)
 		pktinfo->ipi_ifindex = 0;
 		pktinfo->ipi_spec_dst.s_addr = 0;
 	}
-	/* We need to keep the dst for __ip_options_echo()
-	 * We could restrict the test to opt.ts_needtime || opt.srr,
-	 * but the following is good enough as IP options are not often used.
-	 */
-	if (unlikely(IPCB(skb)->opt.optlen))
-		skb_dst_force(skb);
-	else
-		skb_dst_drop(skb);
+	skb_dst_drop(skb);
 }
 
 int ip_setsockopt(struct sock *sk, int level,
-- 
2.13.3