[NETFILTER]: ip_tables: remove ipchains compatibility hack

ipchains support has been removed years ago. kill last remains.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.c b/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.c
index 98c65ac47d4c..439b2925765d 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.c
@@ -1263,10 +1263,6 @@ do_replace(void __user *user, unsigned int len)
         if (copy_from_user(&tmp, user, sizeof(tmp)) != 0)
                 return -EFAULT;
 
-        /* Hack: Causes ipchains to give correct error msg --RR */
-        if (len != sizeof(tmp) + tmp.size)
-                return -ENOPROTOOPT;
-
         /* overflow check */
         if (tmp.num_counters >= INT_MAX / sizeof(struct xt_counters))
                 return -ENOMEM;
@@ -1794,10 +1790,6 @@ compat_do_replace(void __user *user, unsigned int len)
         if (copy_from_user(&tmp, user, sizeof(tmp)) != 0)
                 return -EFAULT;
 
-        /* Hack: Causes ipchains to give correct error msg --RR */
-        if (len != sizeof(tmp) + tmp.size)
-                return -ENOPROTOOPT;
-
         /* overflow check */
         if (tmp.size >= INT_MAX / num_possible_cpus())
                 return -ENOMEM;