netdev - [PATCH net-next v2 7/9] net: ipmr: drop ip_mr_init() mrt_cachep null check as we'll panic if it fails

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Date:	Sat, 21 Nov 2015 15:57:30 +0100
From:	Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@...ckwall.org>
To:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	davem@...emloft.net, eric.dumazet@...il.com,
	Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@...ulusnetworks.com>
Subject: [PATCH net-next v2 7/9] net: ipmr: drop ip_mr_init() mrt_cachep null check as we'll panic if it fails

From: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@...ulusnetworks.com>

It's not necessary to check for null as SLAB_PANIC is used and we'll
panic if the alloc fails, so just drop it.

Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@...ulusnetworks.com>
---
v2: new patch, keep SLAB_PANIC and drop the unnecessary null check

 net/ipv4/ipmr.c | 2 --
 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv4/ipmr.c b/net/ipv4/ipmr.c
index a006d96d6cd9..50aec313119d 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/ipmr.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/ipmr.c
@@ -2677,8 +2677,6 @@ int __init ip_mr_init(void)
 				       sizeof(struct mfc_cache),
 				       0, SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN | SLAB_PANIC,
 				       NULL);
-	if (!mrt_cachep)
-		return -ENOMEM;
 
 	err = register_pernet_subsys(&ipmr_net_ops);
 	if (err)
-- 
2.4.3

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