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Message-Id: <20180724104756.29702-1-fw@strlen.de>
Date:   Tue, 24 Jul 2018 12:47:56 +0200
From:   Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>
To:     <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:     Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>
Subject: [PATCH net-next] netlink: do not store start function in netlink_cb

->start() is called once when dump is being initialized, there is no
need to store it in netlink_cb.

Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>
---
 include/linux/netlink.h  | 1 -
 net/netlink/af_netlink.c | 5 ++---
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/netlink.h b/include/linux/netlink.h
index f3075d6c7e82..71f121b66ca8 100644
--- a/include/linux/netlink.h
+++ b/include/linux/netlink.h
@@ -170,7 +170,6 @@ netlink_skb_clone(struct sk_buff *skb, gfp_t gfp_mask)
 struct netlink_callback {
 	struct sk_buff		*skb;
 	const struct nlmsghdr	*nlh;
-	int			(*start)(struct netlink_callback *);
 	int			(*dump)(struct sk_buff * skb,
 					struct netlink_callback *cb);
 	int			(*done)(struct netlink_callback *cb);
diff --git a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
index 393573a99a5a..f6ac7693d2cc 100644
--- a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
+++ b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
@@ -2300,7 +2300,6 @@ int __netlink_dump_start(struct sock *ssk, struct sk_buff *skb,
 
 	cb = &nlk->cb;
 	memset(cb, 0, sizeof(*cb));
-	cb->start = control->start;
 	cb->dump = control->dump;
 	cb->done = control->done;
 	cb->nlh = nlh;
@@ -2309,8 +2308,8 @@ int __netlink_dump_start(struct sock *ssk, struct sk_buff *skb,
 	cb->min_dump_alloc = control->min_dump_alloc;
 	cb->skb = skb;
 
-	if (cb->start) {
-		ret = cb->start(cb);
+	if (control->start) {
+		ret = control->start(cb);
 		if (ret)
 			goto error_put;
 	}
-- 
2.16.4