netdev - [PATCH net-2.6 4/4] ipv6 mcast: Omit redundant address family checks in ip6_mc

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Date:	Sun, 20 Jul 2008 14:21:40 +0900 (JST)
From:	YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明 
	<yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>
To:	davem@...emloft.net
Cc:	yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH net-2.6 4/4] ipv6 mcast: Omit redundant address family
 checks in ip6_mc_source().

The caller has alredy checked for them.

Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>
---
 net/ipv6/mcast.c |    4 ----
 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv6/mcast.c b/net/ipv6/mcast.c
index 1b28537..e7c03bc 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/mcast.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/mcast.c
@@ -367,10 +367,6 @@ int ip6_mc_source(int add, int omode, struct sock *sk,
 	int pmclocked = 0;
 	int err;
 
-	if (pgsr->gsr_group.ss_family != AF_INET6 ||
-	    pgsr->gsr_source.ss_family != AF_INET6)
-		return -EINVAL;
-
 	source = &((struct sockaddr_in6 *)&pgsr->gsr_source)->sin6_addr;
 	group = &((struct sockaddr_in6 *)&pgsr->gsr_group)->sin6_addr;
 
-- 
1.4.4.4

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