netdev - [PATCH v2 net-next 07/12] net: dsa: tag_lan9303: let DSA core deal with TX reallocation

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Date:   Fri, 30 Oct 2020 03:49:05 +0200
From:   Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@....com>
To:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     andrew@...n.ch, f.fainelli@...il.com, vivien.didelot@...il.com,
        kuba@...nel.org, Christian Eggers <ceggers@...i.de>,
        Kurt Kanzenbach <kurt@...utronix.de>
Subject: [PATCH v2 net-next 07/12] net: dsa: tag_lan9303: let DSA core deal with TX reallocation

Now that we have a central TX reallocation procedure that accounts for
the tagger's needed headroom in a generic way, we can remove the
skb_cow_head call.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@....com>
---
Changes in v2:
None.

 net/dsa/tag_lan9303.c | 9 ---------
 1 file changed, 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/dsa/tag_lan9303.c b/net/dsa/tag_lan9303.c
index ccfb6f641bbf..aa1318dccaf0 100644
--- a/net/dsa/tag_lan9303.c
+++ b/net/dsa/tag_lan9303.c
@@ -58,15 +58,6 @@ static struct sk_buff *lan9303_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
 	__be16 *lan9303_tag;
 	u16 tag;
 
-	/* insert a special VLAN tag between the MAC addresses
-	 * and the current ethertype field.
-	 */
-	if (skb_cow_head(skb, LAN9303_TAG_LEN) < 0) {
-		dev_dbg(&dev->dev,
-			"Cannot make room for the special tag. Dropping packet\n");
-		return NULL;
-	}
-
 	/* provide 'LAN9303_TAG_LEN' bytes additional space */
 	skb_push(skb, LAN9303_TAG_LEN);
 
-- 
2.25.1