1 files changed, 1 insertions, 31 deletions

diff --git a/fs/cifs/netmisc.c b/fs/cifs/netmisc.c
index 3b5a5ce882b6..00f4cff400b3 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/netmisc.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/netmisc.c
@@ -132,47 +132,17 @@ static const struct smb_to_posix_error mapping_table_ERRHRD[] = {
         {0, 0}
 };
 
-
-/* if the mount helper is missing we need to reverse the 1st slash
-   from '/' to backslash in order to format the UNC properly for
-   ip address parsing and for tree connect (unless the user
-   remembered to put the UNC name in properly). Fortunately we do
-   not have to call this twice (we check for IPv4 addresses
-   first, so it is already converted by the time we
-   try IPv6 addresses */
-static int canonicalize_unc(char *cp)
-{
-        int i;
-
-        for (i = 0; i <= 46 /* INET6_ADDRSTRLEN */ ; i++) {
-                if (cp[i] == 0)
-                        break;
-                if (cp[i] == '\\')
-                        break;
-                if (cp[i] == '/') {
-                        cFYI(DBG2, ("change slash to \\ in malformed UNC"));
-                        cp[i] = '\\';
-                        return 1;
-                }
-        }
-        return 0;
-}
-
 /* Convert string containing dotted ip address to binary form */
 /* returns 0 if invalid address */
 
 int
-cifs_inet_pton(int address_family, char *cp, void *dst)
+cifs_inet_pton(const int address_family, const char *cp, void *dst)
 {
         int ret = 0;
 
         /* calculate length by finding first slash or NULL */
         if (address_family == AF_INET) {
                 ret = in4_pton(cp, -1 /* len */, dst, '\\', NULL);
-                if (ret == 0) {
-                        if (canonicalize_unc(cp))
-                                ret = in4_pton(cp, -1, dst, '\\', NULL);
-                }
         } else if (address_family == AF_INET6) {
                 ret = in6_pton(cp, -1 /* len */, dst , '\\', NULL);
         }