netdev - [PATCH] NET : cleanup sock_from

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Date:	Wed, 07 Feb 2007 00:03:25 +0100
From:	Eric Dumazet <dada1@...mosbay.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] NET : cleanup sock_from_file()

I believe dead code from sock_from_file() can be cleaned up.

All sockets are now built using sock_attach_fd(), that puts the 'sock' pointer 
into file->private_data and &socket_file_ops into file->f_op

I could not find a place where file->private_data could be set to NULL, 
keeping opened the file.

So to get 'sock' from a 'file' pointer, either :

- This is a socket file (f_op == &socket_file_ops), and we can directly get 
'sock' from private_data.
- This is not a socket, we return -ENOTSOCK and dont even try to find a socket 
via dentry/inode :)

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@...mosbay.com>

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