netdev - [PATCH RFC] tcp: Do not reload skb pointer after skb_gro

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Date:   Mon, 11 Jun 2018 18:00:13 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
CC:     edumazet@...gle.com
Subject: [PATCH RFC] tcp: Do not reload skb pointer after skb_gro_receive().

This is not necessary.  skb_gro_receive() will never change what
'head' points to.

In it's original implementation (see commit 71d93b39e52e ("net: Add
skb_gro_receive")), it did:

====================
+	*head = nskb;
+	nskb->next = p->next;
+	p->next = NULL;
====================

This sequence was removed in commit 58025e46ea2d ("net: gro: remove
obsolete code from skb_gro_receive()")

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>

diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_offload.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_offload.c
index 4d58e2ce0b5b..8cc7c3487330 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_offload.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_offload.c
@@ -268,8 +268,6 @@ struct sk_buff **tcp_gro_receive(struct sk_buff **head, struct sk_buff *skb)
 		goto out_check_final;
 	}

-	p = *head;
-	th2 = tcp_hdr(p);
 	tcp_flag_word(th2) |= flags & (TCP_FLAG_FIN | TCP_FLAG_PSH);

 out_check_final: