tcp: tcp_make_synack() consumes dst parameter

tcp_make_synack() clones the dst, and callers release it.

We can avoid two atomic operations per SYNACK if tcp_make_synack()
consumes dst instead of cloning it.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c
index c8d28c433b2b..3d9c1a4b8819 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c
@@ -848,7 +848,6 @@ static int tcp_v4_send_synack(struct sock *sk, struct dst_entry *dst,
                 err = net_xmit_eval(err);
         }
 
-        dst_release(dst);
         return err;
 }