netdev - [PATCH] net: ipv6: remove unused code in ipv6_find

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Date:   Fri,  6 Oct 2017 02:07:08 +0800
From:   Lin Zhang <xiaolou4617@...il.com>
To:     kuznet@....inr.ac.ru, davem@...emloft.net, yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, Lin Zhang <xiaolou4617@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH] net: ipv6: remove unused code in ipv6_find_hdr()

Storing the left length of skb into 'len' actually has no effect 
so we can remove it.

Signed-off-by: Lin Zhang <xiaolou4617@...il.com>
---
 net/ipv6/exthdrs_core.c | 3 ---
 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv6/exthdrs_core.c b/net/ipv6/exthdrs_core.c
index 305e2ed..98096ea 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/exthdrs_core.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/exthdrs_core.c
@@ -187,7 +187,6 @@ int ipv6_find_hdr(const struct sk_buff *skb, unsigned int *offset,
 {
 	unsigned int start = skb_network_offset(skb) + sizeof(struct ipv6hdr);
 	u8 nexthdr = ipv6_hdr(skb)->nexthdr;
-	unsigned int len;
 	bool found;
 
 	if (fragoff)
@@ -204,7 +203,6 @@ int ipv6_find_hdr(const struct sk_buff *skb, unsigned int *offset,
 		start = *offset + sizeof(struct ipv6hdr);
 		nexthdr = ip6->nexthdr;
 	}
-	len = skb->len - start;
 
 	do {
 		struct ipv6_opt_hdr _hdr, *hp;
@@ -273,7 +271,6 @@ int ipv6_find_hdr(const struct sk_buff *skb, unsigned int *offset,
 
 		if (!found) {
 			nexthdr = hp->nexthdr;
-			len -= hdrlen;
 			start += hdrlen;
 		}
 	} while (!found);
-- 
1.8.3.1