netdev - [PATCH net-next] ipv6: avoid zeroing per cpu data again

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Date:   Mon, 09 Oct 2017 06:01:37 -0700
From:   Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:     netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@...com>,
        Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH net-next] ipv6: avoid zeroing per cpu data again

From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>

per cpu allocations are already zeroed, no need to clear them again.

Fixes: d52d3997f843f ("ipv6: Create percpu rt6_info")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
Cc: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@...com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
---
 net/ipv6/route.c |   12 +-----------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv6/route.c b/net/ipv6/route.c
index 606e80325b21c0e10a02e9c7d5b3fcfbfc26a003..3d7d4e09301ef4deae1985412599c6f4e973c46f 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/route.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/route.c
@@ -377,17 +377,7 @@ struct rt6_info *ip6_dst_alloc(struct net *net,
 
 	if (rt) {
 		rt->rt6i_pcpu = alloc_percpu_gfp(struct rt6_info *, GFP_ATOMIC);
-		if (rt->rt6i_pcpu) {
-			int cpu;
-
-			for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) {
-				struct rt6_info **p;
-
-				p = per_cpu_ptr(rt->rt6i_pcpu, cpu);
-				/* no one shares rt */
-				*p =  NULL;
-			}
-		} else {
+		if (!rt->rt6i_pcpu) {
 			dst_release_immediate(&rt->dst);
 			return NULL;
 		}