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[net-next] net: remove unnecessary NULL checking in napi_consume_skb()

Message ID 1600482287-46754-1-git-send-email-linyunsheng@huawei.com
State Accepted
Delegated to: David Miller
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Series [net-next] net: remove unnecessary NULL checking in napi_consume_skb() | expand

Commit Message

Yunsheng Lin Sept. 19, 2020, 2:24 a.m. UTC
When budget is non-zero, skb_unref() has already handled the
NULL checking.

When budget is zero, the dev_consume_skb_any() has handled NULL
checking in __dev_kfree_skb_irq(), or dev_kfree_skb() which also
ultimately call skb_unref().

So remove the unnecessary checking in napi_consume_skb().

Signed-off-by: Yunsheng Lin <linyunsheng@huawei.com>
---
 net/core/skbuff.c | 3 ---
 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)

Comments

David Miller Sept. 20, 2020, 9:18 p.m. UTC | #1
From: Yunsheng Lin <linyunsheng@huawei.com>
Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2020 10:24:47 +0800

> When budget is non-zero, skb_unref() has already handled the
> NULL checking.
> 
> When budget is zero, the dev_consume_skb_any() has handled NULL
> checking in __dev_kfree_skb_irq(), or dev_kfree_skb() which also
> ultimately call skb_unref().
> 
> So remove the unnecessary checking in napi_consume_skb().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Yunsheng Lin <linyunsheng@huawei.com>

Applied.
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diff --git a/net/core/skbuff.c b/net/core/skbuff.c
index bfd7483..e077447 100644
--- a/net/core/skbuff.c
+++ b/net/core/skbuff.c
@@ -895,9 +895,6 @@  void __kfree_skb_defer(struct sk_buff *skb)
 
 void napi_consume_skb(struct sk_buff *skb, int budget)
 {
-	if (unlikely(!skb))
-		return;
-
 	/* Zero budget indicate non-NAPI context called us, like netpoll */
 	if (unlikely(!budget)) {
 		dev_consume_skb_any(skb);