netdev - Re: [PATCH] ipv4: check rt_genid in dst

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Message-Id: <20100319.210825.59665638.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Fri, 19 Mar 2010 21:08:25 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	herbert@...dor.apana.org.au
Cc:	timo.teras@....fi, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipv4: check rt_genid in dst_check

From: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 17:00:22 +0800

> On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 04:56:00PM +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
>> 
>> I'll send a patch to remove the same check on the IPv6 path.
> 
> ipv6: Remove redundant dst NULL check in ip6_dst_check
> 
> As the only path leading to ip6_dst_check makes an indirect call
> through dst->ops, dst cannot be NULL in ip6_dst_check.
> 
> This patch removes this check in case it misleads people who
> come across this code.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>

Applied.
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