3.16.83-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> commit f394722fb0d0f701119368959d7cd0ecbc46363a upstream. neigh_cleanup() has not been used for seven years, and was a wrong design. Messing with shared pointer in bond_neigh_init() without proper memory barriers would at least trigger syzbot complains eventually. It is time to remove this stuff. Fixes: b63b70d87741 ("IPoIB: Use a private hash table for path lookup in xmit path") Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> [bwh: Backported to 3.16: adjust context] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- --- a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c +++ b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c @@ -3431,19 +3431,10 @@ static int bond_neigh_init(struct neighb return 0; parms.neigh_setup = NULL; - parms.neigh_cleanup = NULL; ret = slave_ops->ndo_neigh_setup(slave->dev, &parms); if (ret) return ret; - /* - * Assign slave's neigh_cleanup to neighbour in case cleanup is called - * after the last slave has been detached. Assumes that all slaves - * utilize the same neigh_cleanup (true at this writing as only user - * is ipoib). - */ - n->parms->neigh_cleanup = parms.neigh_cleanup; - if (!parms.neigh_setup) return 0; --- a/include/net/neighbour.h +++ b/include/net/neighbour.h @@ -71,7 +71,6 @@ struct neigh_parms { struct net_device *dev; struct neigh_parms *next; int (*neigh_setup)(struct neighbour *); - void (*neigh_cleanup)(struct neighbour *); struct neigh_table *tbl; void *sysctl_table; --- a/net/core/neighbour.c +++ b/net/core/neighbour.c @@ -103,9 +103,6 @@ static int neigh_blackhole(struct neighb static void neigh_cleanup_and_release(struct neighbour *neigh) { - if (neigh->parms->neigh_cleanup) - neigh->parms->neigh_cleanup(neigh); - __neigh_notify(neigh, RTM_DELNEIGH, 0); neigh_release(neigh); }