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Date:	Wed, 17 Apr 2013 11:46:21 -0400
From:	Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>
To:	Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@...hat.com>
Cc:	davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-sctp@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 8/9] net: sctp: sctp_ulpq: remove 'malloced'
 struct member

On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 11:07:17PM +0200, Daniel Borkmann wrote:
> The structure sctp_ulpq is embedded into sctp_association and never
> separately allocated, also ulpq->malloced is always 0, so that
> kfree() is never called. Therefore, remove this code.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@...hat.com>
> ---
>  include/net/sctp/ulpqueue.h | 1 -
>  net/sctp/ulpqueue.c         | 3 ---
>  2 files changed, 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/net/sctp/ulpqueue.h b/include/net/sctp/ulpqueue.h
> index ff1b8ba7..00e50ba 100644
> --- a/include/net/sctp/ulpqueue.h
> +++ b/include/net/sctp/ulpqueue.h
> @@ -49,7 +49,6 @@
>  
>  /* A structure to carry information to the ULP (e.g. Sockets API) */
>  struct sctp_ulpq {
> -	char malloced;
>  	char pd_mode;
>  	struct sctp_association *asoc;
>  	struct sk_buff_head reasm;
> diff --git a/net/sctp/ulpqueue.c b/net/sctp/ulpqueue.c
> index 0fd5b3d..04e3d47 100644
> --- a/net/sctp/ulpqueue.c
> +++ b/net/sctp/ulpqueue.c
> @@ -68,7 +68,6 @@ struct sctp_ulpq *sctp_ulpq_init(struct sctp_ulpq *ulpq,
>  	skb_queue_head_init(&ulpq->reasm);
>  	skb_queue_head_init(&ulpq->lobby);
>  	ulpq->pd_mode  = 0;
> -	ulpq->malloced = 0;
>  
>  	return ulpq;
>  }
> @@ -96,8 +95,6 @@ void sctp_ulpq_flush(struct sctp_ulpq *ulpq)
>  void sctp_ulpq_free(struct sctp_ulpq *ulpq)
>  {
>  	sctp_ulpq_flush(ulpq);
> -	if (ulpq->malloced)
> -		kfree(ulpq);
>  }
>  
>  /* Process an incoming DATA chunk.  */
> -- 
> 1.7.11.7
> 
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Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>
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