[PATCH net-next 07/15] batman-adv: drop NULL check for immutable hardif->mesh_iface
From: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
Date: 2026-06-30 14:09:52
Also in:
batman
Subsystem:
batman advanced, the rest · Maintainers:
Marek Lindner, Simon Wunderlich, Antonio Quartulli, Sven Eckelmann, Linus Torvalds
From: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> The batadv_hard_iface->mesh_iface became immutable after the global batadv_hardif_list was removed and batadv_hard_iface only exists when it is assigned to an mesh_iface. This member can never become NULL and thus a check is now unnecessary. Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de> --- net/batman-adv/bat_v_elp.c | 6 ------ net/batman-adv/bridge_loop_avoidance.c | 9 ++------- net/batman-adv/hard-interface.c | 8 ++------ net/batman-adv/main.c | 3 --- 4 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/batman-adv/bat_v_elp.c b/net/batman-adv/bat_v_elp.c
index bc3e4f264afa1..262e40040007c 100644
--- a/net/batman-adv/bat_v_elp.c
+++ b/net/batman-adv/bat_v_elp.c@@ -90,12 +90,6 @@ static bool batadv_v_elp_get_throughput(struct batadv_hardif_neigh_node *neigh, u32 throughput; int ret; - /* don't query throughput when no longer associated with any - * batman-adv interface - */ - if (!mesh_iface) - return false; - /* if the user specified a customised value for this interface, then * return it directly */
diff --git a/net/batman-adv/bridge_loop_avoidance.c b/net/batman-adv/bridge_loop_avoidance.c
index 5c73f6ba16cff..f9a1fadf8de9e 100644
--- a/net/batman-adv/bridge_loop_avoidance.c
+++ b/net/batman-adv/bridge_loop_avoidance.c@@ -344,7 +344,6 @@ static void batadv_bla_send_claim(struct batadv_priv *bat_priv, const u8 *mac, struct sk_buff *skb; struct ethhdr *ethhdr; struct batadv_hard_iface *primary_if; - struct net_device *mesh_iface; u8 *hw_src; struct batadv_bla_claim_dst local_claim_dest; __be32 zeroip = 0;
@@ -357,14 +356,10 @@ static void batadv_bla_send_claim(struct batadv_priv *bat_priv, const u8 *mac, sizeof(local_claim_dest)); local_claim_dest.type = claimtype; - mesh_iface = READ_ONCE(primary_if->mesh_iface); - if (!mesh_iface) - goto out; - skb = arp_create(ARPOP_REPLY, ETH_P_ARP, /* IP DST: 0.0.0.0 */ zeroip, - mesh_iface, + primary_if->mesh_iface, /* IP SRC: 0.0.0.0 */ zeroip, /* Ethernet DST: Broadcast */
@@ -442,7 +437,7 @@ static void batadv_bla_send_claim(struct batadv_priv *bat_priv, const u8 *mac, } skb_reset_mac_header(skb); - skb->protocol = eth_type_trans(skb, mesh_iface); + skb->protocol = eth_type_trans(skb, primary_if->mesh_iface); batadv_inc_counter(bat_priv, BATADV_CNT_RX); batadv_add_counter(bat_priv, BATADV_CNT_RX_BYTES, skb->len + ETH_HLEN);
diff --git a/net/batman-adv/hard-interface.c b/net/batman-adv/hard-interface.c
index 6fc49ad47fd87..b6867576bbafa 100644
--- a/net/batman-adv/hard-interface.c
+++ b/net/batman-adv/hard-interface.c@@ -246,7 +246,7 @@ struct net_device *__batadv_get_real_netdev(struct net_device *netdev) } hard_iface = batadv_hardif_get_by_netdev(netdev); - if (!hard_iface || !hard_iface->mesh_iface) + if (!hard_iface) goto out; net = dev_net(hard_iface->mesh_iface);
@@ -540,9 +540,6 @@ static void batadv_check_known_mac_addr(const struct batadv_hard_iface *hard_ifa const struct batadv_hard_iface *tmp_hard_iface; struct list_head *iter; - if (!mesh_iface) - return; - netdev_for_each_lower_private(mesh_iface, tmp_hard_iface, iter) { if (tmp_hard_iface == hard_iface) continue;
@@ -1053,8 +1050,7 @@ static int batadv_hard_if_event(struct notifier_block *this, batadv_hardif_disable_interface(hard_iface); break; case NETDEV_CHANGEMTU: - if (hard_iface->mesh_iface) - batadv_update_min_mtu(hard_iface->mesh_iface); + batadv_update_min_mtu(hard_iface->mesh_iface); break; case NETDEV_CHANGEADDR: batadv_check_known_mac_addr(hard_iface);
diff --git a/net/batman-adv/main.c b/net/batman-adv/main.c
index badc1df0af1d5..04bb030ef299a 100644
--- a/net/batman-adv/main.c
+++ b/net/batman-adv/main.c@@ -444,9 +444,6 @@ int batadv_batman_skb_recv(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev, if (unlikely(skb->mac_len != ETH_HLEN || !skb_mac_header(skb))) goto err_free; - if (!hard_iface->mesh_iface) - goto err_free; - bat_priv = netdev_priv(hard_iface->mesh_iface); if (READ_ONCE(bat_priv->mesh_state) != BATADV_MESH_ACTIVE)
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