There is no clone() invocation within a bpf_net_ctx_…() block. Therefore the task_struct::bpf_net_context has always to be NULL and an explicit initialisation is not required. Remove the NULL assignment in the clone() path. Suggested-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/fork.c | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c index f314bdd7e6108..99076dbe27d83 100644 --- a/kernel/fork.c +++ b/kernel/fork.c @@ -2355,7 +2355,6 @@ __latent_entropy struct task_struct *copy_process( RCU_INIT_POINTER(p->bpf_storage, NULL); p->bpf_ctx = NULL; #endif - p->bpf_net_context = NULL; /* Perform scheduler related setup. Assign this task to a CPU. */ retval = sched_fork(clone_flags, p); -- 2.45.2