Re: [PATCH]: Kill spurious sk->sk_socket NULL assignments in netrom.

[Bernard Pidoux <bernard.pidoux@upmc.fr>]

David,

All patches applied and running.
Thanks.

Bernard, f6bvp


David Miller wrote:
> Both of these assignments are spurious, so we can delete them.
> 
> Applied and pushed out to net-next-2.6
> 
> netrom: Kill spurious NULL'ing of sk->sk_socket.
> 
> In nr_release(), one code path calls sock_orphan() which
> will NULL out sk->sk_socket already.
> 
> In the other case, handling states other than NR_STATE_{0,1,2,3},
> seems to not be possible other than due to bugs.  Even for an
> uninitialized nr->state value, that would be zero or NR_STATE_0.
> It might be wise to stick a WARN_ON() here.
> 
> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
> ---
>  net/netrom/af_netrom.c |    2 --
>  1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/net/netrom/af_netrom.c b/net/netrom/af_netrom.c
> index 5877962..74884f4 100644
> --- a/net/netrom/af_netrom.c
> +++ b/net/netrom/af_netrom.c
> @@ -536,11 +536,9 @@ static int nr_release(struct socket *sock)
>  		sk->sk_state_change(sk);
>  		sock_orphan(sk);
>  		sock_set_flag(sk, SOCK_DESTROY);
> -		sk->sk_socket   = NULL;
>  		break;
>  
>  	default:
> -		sk->sk_socket = NULL;
>  		break;
>  	}
>