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| author | Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org> | 2025-09-18 05:25:57 -0700 |
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| committer | Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> | 2025-09-19 17:50:59 -0700 |
| commit | b34df17d588de926212527a2f2ce72bc4e330260 (patch) | |
| tree | 6069482370351f6bea54b165b3493eb54cb5b8af /net/core/netpoll.c | |
| parent | 4d3c5db44cfd121ed3d930deea91c230e2db3bae (diff) | |
net: netpoll: remove unused netpoll pointer from netpoll_info
The netpoll_info structure contains an useless pointer back to its
associated netpoll. This field is never used, and the assignment in
__netpoll_setup() is does not comtemplate multiple instances, as
reported by Jay[1].
Drop both the member and its initialization to simplify the structure.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/2930648.1757463506@famine/ [1]
Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250918-netpoll_jv-v1-1-67d50eeb2c26@debian.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/core/netpoll.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/core/netpoll.c | 1 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/netpoll.c b/net/core/netpoll.c index 5f65b62346d4..c58faa747165 100644 --- a/net/core/netpoll.c +++ b/net/core/netpoll.c @@ -591,7 +591,6 @@ int __netpoll_setup(struct netpoll *np, struct net_device *ndev) np->dev = ndev; strscpy(np->dev_name, ndev->name, IFNAMSIZ); - npinfo->netpoll = np; /* fill up the skb queue */ refill_skbs(np); |