linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH linux-next] ipv6: Remove assignment to 'newinet'

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Date:   Thu, 11 Nov 2021 17:16:32 -0800
From:   Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
To:     patchwork-bot+netdevbpf@...nel.org
Cc:     luo penghao <cgel.zte@...il.com>, davem@...emloft.net,
        yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org, dsahern@...nel.org, kuba@...nel.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        luo.penghao@....com.cn, zealci@....com.cn
Subject: Re: [PATCH linux-next] ipv6: Remove assignment to 'newinet'

On Thu, Nov 11, 2021 at 4:41 PM <patchwork-bot+netdevbpf@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> Hello:
>
> This patch was applied to netdev/net-next.git (master)
> by Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>:
>
> On Thu, 11 Nov 2021 09:23:46 +0000 you wrote:
> > From: luo penghao <luo.penghao@....com.cn>
> >
> > The same statement will overwrite it afterwards. meanwhile, the
> > assignment is in the if statement, the variable will not be used
> >
> > Reported-by: Zeal Robot <zealci@....com.cn>
> > Signed-off-by: luo penghao <luo.penghao@....com.cn>
> >
> > [...]
>
> Here is the summary with links:
>   - [linux-next] ipv6: Remove assignment to 'newinet'
>     https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/70bf363d7adb
>
> You are awesome, thank you!
> --
> Deet-doot-dot, I am a bot.
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>
>

But why ?


All these bots, trying to send the same patches to multiple trees....

commit 70bf363d7adb3a428773bc905011d0ff923ba747
Author: Nghia Le <nghialm78@...il.com>
Date:   Thu Nov 4 21:37:40 2021 +0700

    ipv6: remove useless assignment to newinet in tcp_v6_syn_recv_sock()

    The newinet value is initialized with inet_sk() in a block code to
    handle sockets for the ETH_P_IP protocol. Along this code path,
    newinet is never read. Thus, assignment to newinet is needless and
    can be removed.

    Signed-off-by: Nghia Le <nghialm78@...il.com>
    Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
    Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211104143740.32446-1-nghialm78@gmail.com
    Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>

diff --git a/net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c b/net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c
index 2cc9b0e53ad1c8e2d35fc9c6dbd1e90fee40b632..551fce49841d7f53a111b0435855634cece2b40a
100644
--- a/net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c
@@ -1263,7 +1263,6 @@ static struct sock *tcp_v6_syn_recv_sock(const
struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *

                inet_sk(newsk)->pinet6 = tcp_inet6_sk(newsk);

-               newinet = inet_sk(newsk);
                newnp = tcp_inet6_sk(newsk);
                newtp = tcp_sk(newsk);