No caller of batadv_send_skb_to_orig is expecting the results to be -1 (-EPERM) anymore when the skbuff was not consumed. They will instead expect that the skbuff is always consumed. Having such return code filter is therefore not needed anymore.
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann sven@narfation.org --- net/batman-adv/send.c | 17 ++++++----------- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/batman-adv/send.c b/net/batman-adv/send.c index 4254172..2b946c1 100644 --- a/net/batman-adv/send.c +++ b/net/batman-adv/send.c @@ -64,8 +64,11 @@ static void batadv_send_outstanding_bcast_packet(struct work_struct *work); * If neigh_node is NULL, then the packet is broadcasted using hard_iface, * otherwise it is sent as unicast to the given neighbor. * - * Return: NET_TX_DROP in case of error or the result of dev_queue_xmit(skb) - * otherwise + * Regardless of the return value, the skb is consumed. + * + * Return: A negative errno code is returned on a failure. A success does not + * guarantee the frame will be transmitted as it may be dropped due + * to congestion or traffic shaping. */ int batadv_send_skb_packet(struct sk_buff *skb, struct batadv_hard_iface *hard_iface, @@ -73,7 +76,6 @@ int batadv_send_skb_packet(struct sk_buff *skb, { struct batadv_priv *bat_priv; struct ethhdr *ethhdr; - int ret;
bat_priv = netdev_priv(hard_iface->soft_iface);
@@ -111,15 +113,8 @@ int batadv_send_skb_packet(struct sk_buff *skb, /* dev_queue_xmit() returns a negative result on error. However on * congestion and traffic shaping, it drops and returns NET_XMIT_DROP * (which is > 0). This will not be treated as an error. - * - * a negative value cannot be returned because it could be interepreted - * as not consumed skb by callers of batadv_send_skb_to_orig. */ - ret = dev_queue_xmit(skb); - if (ret < 0) - ret = NET_XMIT_DROP; - - return ret; + return dev_queue_xmit(skb); send_skb_err: kfree_skb(skb); return NET_XMIT_DROP;