[PATCH net-next v3 3/6] net: splice: Drop nr_pages_max initialization

From: Michal Luczaj
Date: Wed Jul 02 2025 - 09:41:34 EST


splice_pipe_desc::nr_pages_max was initialized unnecessarily in commit
41c73a0d44c9 ("net: speedup skb_splice_bits()"). spd_fill_page() compares
spd->nr_pages against a constant MAX_SKB_FRAGS, which makes setting
nr_pages_max redundant.

Remove the assignment. No functional change intended.

Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Michal Luczaj <mhal@xxxxxxx>
---
net/core/skbuff.c | 1 -
1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/core/skbuff.c b/net/core/skbuff.c
index a34fe37cf7a508c8380e35522d9cde266aa440f9..3041f7a3560d58270dffdf923825758f274c8511 100644
--- a/net/core/skbuff.c
+++ b/net/core/skbuff.c
@@ -3189,7 +3189,6 @@ int skb_splice_bits(struct sk_buff *skb, struct sock *sk, unsigned int offset,
struct splice_pipe_desc spd = {
.pages = pages,
.partial = partial,
- .nr_pages_max = MAX_SKB_FRAGS,
.ops = &nosteal_pipe_buf_ops,
.spd_release = sock_spd_release,
};

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2.49.0