vxge: Removed the code to bounds check the mss value

- Removed the code to bounds check the mss value. The hardware does bounds checking and
will not allow an oversized mss to lockup the transmit path.

Signed-off-by: Sreenivasa Honnur <sreenivasa.honnur@neterion.com>
Signed-off-by: Ramkrishna Vepa <ram.vepa@neterion.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

2 files changed, 0 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/net/vxge/vxge-main.c b/drivers/net/vxge/vxge-main.c
index dd2add1d7566..cda18f815c3a 100644
--- a/drivers/net/vxge/vxge-main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/vxge/vxge-main.c
@@ -817,7 +817,6 @@ vxge_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
         u64 dma_pointer;
         struct vxge_tx_priv *txdl_priv = NULL;
         struct __vxge_hw_fifo *fifo_hw;
-        u32 max_mss = 0x0;
         int offload_type;
         unsigned long flags = 0;
         int vpath_no = 0;
@@ -969,10 +968,6 @@ vxge_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
 
                 int mss = vxge_tcp_mss(skb);
                 if (mss) {
-                        max_mss = dev->mtu + ETH_HLEN -
-                                VXGE_HW_TCPIP_HEADER_MAX_SIZE;
-                        if (mss > max_mss)
-                                mss = max_mss;
                         vxge_debug_tx(VXGE_TRACE,
                                 "%s: %s:%d mss = %d",
                                 dev->name, __func__, __LINE__, mss);
diff --git a/drivers/net/vxge/vxge-traffic.h b/drivers/net/vxge/vxge-traffic.h
index 7567a1140d07..8260b91fd795 100644
--- a/drivers/net/vxge/vxge-traffic.h
+++ b/drivers/net/vxge/vxge-traffic.h
@@ -35,8 +35,6 @@
                         VXGE_HW_HEADER_VLAN_SIZE + \
                         VXGE_HW_HEADER_SNAP_SIZE)
 
-#define VXGE_HW_TCPIP_HEADER_MAX_SIZE   (64 + 64)
-
 /* 32bit alignments */
 #define VXGE_HW_HEADER_ETHERNET_II_802_3_ALIGN          2
 #define VXGE_HW_HEADER_802_2_SNAP_ALIGN                 2