netdev - Re: [PATCH] tcp: remove duplicate th = tcp

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Date:	Thu, 13 Jan 2011 10:54:14 -0500
From:	Jesse Gross <jesse@...ira.com>
To:	Christoph Paasch <christoph.paasch@...ouvain.be>
Cc:	davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tcp: remove duplicate th = tcp_hdr(skb)

On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 10:41 AM, Christoph Paasch
<christoph.paasch@...ouvain.be> wrote:
> th is already set some lines before to be th = tcp_hdr(skb).
>
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Paasch <christoph.paasch@...ouvain.be>
> ---
>  net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c |    1 -
>  1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c
> index 856f684..7fe29c6 100644
> --- a/net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c
> +++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c
> @@ -1644,7 +1644,6 @@ int tcp_v4_rcv(struct sk_buff *skb)
>        if (!skb_csum_unnecessary(skb) && tcp_v4_checksum_init(skb))
>                goto bad_packet;
>
> -       th = tcp_hdr(skb);

It needs to be reloaded because pskb_may_pull() may reallocate the buffer.
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