The following commit has been merged in the master branch:
commit 242c1a28eb61cb34974e8aa05235d84355940a8a
Author: Gao Feng <gfree.wind(a)vip.163.com>
Date: Fri Sep 22 10:25:22 2017 +0800
net: Remove useless function skb_header_release
There is no one which would invokes the function skb_header_release.
So just remove it now.
Signed-off-by: Gao Feng <gfree.wind(a)vip.163.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem(a)davemloft.net>
diff --git a/drivers/net/usb/asix_common.c b/drivers/net/usb/asix_common.c
index 522d2900cd1d..f4d7362eb325 100644
--- a/drivers/net/usb/asix_common.c
+++ b/drivers/net/usb/asix_common.c
@@ -245,7 +245,7 @@ struct sk_buff *asix_tx_fixup(struct usbnet *dev, struct sk_buff *skb,
* - We are allowed to put 4 bytes at tail if skb_cloned()
* is false (and if we have 4 bytes of tailroom)
*
- * TCP packets for example are cloned, but skb_header_release()
+ * TCP packets for example are cloned, but __skb_header_release()
* was called in tcp stack, allowing us to use headroom for our needs.
*/
if (!skb_header_cloned(skb) &&
diff --git a/include/linux/skbuff.h b/include/linux/skbuff.h
index 492828801acb..f9db5539a6fb 100644
--- a/include/linux/skbuff.h
+++ b/include/linux/skbuff.h
@@ -1457,27 +1457,8 @@ static inline int skb_header_unclone(struct sk_buff *skb, gfp_t pri)
}
/**
- * skb_header_release - release reference to header
- * @skb: buffer to operate on
- *
- * Drop a reference to the header part of the buffer. This is done
- * by acquiring a payload reference. You must not read from the header
- * part of skb->data after this.
- * Note : Check if you can use __skb_header_release() instead.
- */
-static inline void skb_header_release(struct sk_buff *skb)
-{
- BUG_ON(skb->nohdr);
- skb->nohdr = 1;
- atomic_add(1 << SKB_DATAREF_SHIFT, &skb_shinfo(skb)->dataref);
-}
-
-/**
* __skb_header_release - release reference to header
* @skb: buffer to operate on
- *
- * Variant of skb_header_release() assuming skb is private to caller.
- * We can avoid one atomic operation.
*/
static inline void __skb_header_release(struct sk_buff *skb)
{
diff --git a/net/batman-adv/soft-interface.c b/net/batman-adv/soft-interface.c
index 10f7edfb176e..c2c986746d0b 100644
--- a/net/batman-adv/soft-interface.c
+++ b/net/batman-adv/soft-interface.c
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ int batadv_skb_head_push(struct sk_buff *skb, unsigned int len)
int result;
/* TODO: We must check if we can release all references to non-payload
- * data using skb_header_release in our skbs to allow skb_cow_header to
+ * data using __skb_header_release in our skbs to allow skb_cow_header to
* work optimally. This means that those skbs are not allowed to read
* or write any data which is before the current position of skb->data
* after that call and thus allow other skbs with the same data buffer
--
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