netdev - [PATCH net] net: keep refcount warning in reqsk

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Date:   Sat, 9 Mar 2019 10:26:53 +0100
From:   Guillaume Nault <gnault@...hat.com>
To:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH net] net: keep refcount warning in reqsk_free()

As Eric Dumazet said, "We do not have a way to tell if the req was ever
inserted in a hash table, so better play safe.".
Let's remove this comment, so that nobody will be tempted to drop the
WARN_ON_ONCE() line.

Signed-off-by: Guillaume Nault <gnault@...hat.com>
---
 include/net/request_sock.h | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/include/net/request_sock.h b/include/net/request_sock.h
index 347015515a7d..21a5243fecd1 100644
--- a/include/net/request_sock.h
+++ b/include/net/request_sock.h
@@ -108,7 +108,6 @@ reqsk_alloc(const struct request_sock_ops *ops, struct sock *sk_listener,
 
 static inline void reqsk_free(struct request_sock *req)
 {
-	/* temporary debugging */
 	WARN_ON_ONCE(refcount_read(&req->rsk_refcnt) != 0);
 
 	req->rsk_ops->destructor(req);
-- 
2.20.1