The following commit has been merged in the master branch: commit 020577f879be736bc87e1f48dfad7220923401c0 Author: Sven Eckelmann sven@narfation.org Date: Wed Jun 2 21:54:30 2021 +0200

batman-adv: Drop reduntant batadv interface check

If batadv_hardif_enable_interface is called then its called from its callback ndo_add_slave. It is therefore not necessary to check if it is a batadv interface.

Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann sven@narfation.org Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich sw@simonwunderlich.de

diff --git a/net/batman-adv/hard-interface.c b/net/batman-adv/hard-interface.c index 44b0aa30c30a..55d97e18aa4a 100644 --- a/net/batman-adv/hard-interface.c +++ b/net/batman-adv/hard-interface.c @@ -9,7 +9,6 @@

#include <linux/atomic.h> #include <linux/byteorder/generic.h> -#include <linux/errno.h> #include <linux/gfp.h> #include <linux/if.h> #include <linux/if_arp.h> @@ -698,14 +697,6 @@ int batadv_hardif_enable_interface(struct batadv_hard_iface *hard_iface, kref_get(&hard_iface->refcount);

dev_hold(soft_iface); - - if (!batadv_softif_is_valid(soft_iface)) { - pr_err("Can't create batman mesh interface %s: already exists as regular interface\n", - soft_iface->name); - ret = -EINVAL; - goto err_dev; - } - hard_iface->soft_iface = soft_iface; bat_priv = netdev_priv(hard_iface->soft_iface);