netdev - Re: [PATCH net] mptcp: drop unused rcu member in mptcp_pm_addr

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Message-ID: <20210803082152.259d9c2a@kicinski-fedora-pc1c0hjn.dhcp.thefacebook.com>
Date:   Tue, 3 Aug 2021 08:21:52 -0700
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Mat Martineau <mathew.j.martineau@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, Geliang Tang <geliangtang@...il.com>,
        davem@...emloft.net, matthieu.baerts@...sares.net,
        mptcp@...ts.linux.dev
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] mptcp: drop unused rcu member in
 mptcp_pm_addr_entry

On Mon,  2 Aug 2021 16:19:14 -0700 Mat Martineau wrote:
> From: Geliang Tang <geliangtang@...il.com>
> 
> kfree_rcu() had been removed from pm_netlink.c, so this rcu field in
> struct mptcp_pm_addr_entry became useless. Let's drop it.
> 
> Fixes: 1729cf186d8a ("mptcp: create the listening socket for new port")
> Signed-off-by: Geliang Tang <geliangtang@...il.com>
> Signed-off-by: Mat Martineau <mathew.j.martineau@...ux.intel.com>

This just removes a superfluous member, right? So could as well be
applied to net-next?