netdev - [PATCH net-next 15/15] neigh: Don't require a dst in neigh_resolve

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Date:	Mon, 02 Mar 2015 00:14:14 -0600
From:	ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>,
	linux-hams@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH net-next 15/15] neigh: Don't require a dst in neigh_resolve_output


Having a dst helps a little bit for teql but is fundamentally
unnecessary and there are code paths where a dst is not available that
it would be nice to use the neighbour cache.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
---
 net/core/neighbour.c | 6 ------
 1 file changed, 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/core/neighbour.c b/net/core/neighbour.c
index af72b863e968..0f48ea3affed 100644
--- a/net/core/neighbour.c
+++ b/net/core/neighbour.c
@@ -1284,12 +1284,8 @@ static void neigh_hh_init(struct neighbour *n)
 
 int neigh_resolve_output(struct neighbour *neigh, struct sk_buff *skb)
 {
-	struct dst_entry *dst = skb_dst(skb);
 	int rc = 0;
 
-	if (!dst)
-		goto discard;
-
 	if (!neigh_event_send(neigh, skb)) {
 		int err;
 		struct net_device *dev = neigh->dev;
@@ -1312,8 +1308,6 @@ int neigh_resolve_output(struct neighbour *neigh, struct sk_buff *skb)
 	}
 out:
 	return rc;
-discard:
-	neigh_dbg(1, "%s: dst=%p neigh=%p\n", __func__, dst, neigh);
 out_kfree_skb:
 	rc = -EINVAL;
 	kfree_skb(skb);
-- 
2.2.1

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