netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] ipv6: Avoid going through ->sk

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Date:   Mon, 31 Jul 2017 18:02:20 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     jkbs@...hat.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] ipv6: Avoid going through ->sk_net to access
 the netns

From: Jakub Sitnicki <jkbs@...hat.com>
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2017 10:09:41 +0200

> There is no need to go through sk->sk_net to access the net namespace
> and its sysctl variables because we allocate the sock and initialize
> sk_net just a few lines earlier in the same routine.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jakub Sitnicki <jkbs@...hat.com>

Applied, thanks.