From 92a0acce186cde8ead56c6915d9479773673ea1a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 21:24:05 -0800
Subject: net: Kill skb_truesize_check(), it only catches false-positives.

A long time ago we had bugs, primarily in TCP, where we would modify
skb->truesize (for TSO queue collapsing) in ways which would corrupt
the socket memory accounting.

skb_truesize_check() was added in order to try and catch this error
more systematically.

However this debugging check has morphed into a Frankenstein of sorts
and these days it does nothing other than catch false-positives.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
---
 include/net/sock.h | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'include/net/sock.h')

diff --git a/include/net/sock.h b/include/net/sock.h
index ce3b5b6..eefeeaf 100644
--- a/include/net/sock.h
+++ b/include/net/sock.h
@@ -860,7 +860,6 @@ static inline void sk_mem_uncharge(struct sock *sk, int size)
 
 static inline void sk_wmem_free_skb(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb)
 {
-	skb_truesize_check(skb);
 	sock_set_flag(sk, SOCK_QUEUE_SHRUNK);
 	sk->sk_wmem_queued -= skb->truesize;
 	sk_mem_uncharge(sk, skb->truesize);
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