The following commit has been merged in the master branch: commit 242c1a28eb61cb34974e8aa05235d84355940a8a Author: Gao Feng gfree.wind@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@vip.163.com Signed-off-by: David S. Miller davem@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