net: pending_confirm is not used anymore

BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1715812

When same struct dst_entry can be used for many different
neighbours we can not use it for pending confirmations.
As last step, we can remove the pending_confirm flag.
Reported-by: YueHaibing <yuehaibing@huawei.com>
Fixes: 5110effe ("net: Do delayed neigh confirmation.")
Fixes: f2bb4bed ("ipv4: Cache output routes in fib_info nexthops.")
Signed-off-by: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
(cherry picked from commit 51ce8bd4)
Signed-off-by: Daniel Axtens <daniel.axtens@canonical.com>
Acked-by: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@canonical.com>
Acked-by: Colin King <colin.king@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@canonical.com>

include/net/dst.h

@@ -59,8 +59,6 @@ struct dst_entry {
 #define DST_XFRM_QUEUE		0x0100
 #define DST_METADATA		0x0200
 
-	unsigned short		pending_confirm;
-
 	short			error;
 
 	/* A non-zero value of dst->obsolete forces by-hand validation
@@ -78,6 +76,8 @@ struct dst_entry {
 #define DST_OBSOLETE_KILL	-2
 	unsigned short		header_len;	/* more space at head required */
 	unsigned short		trailer_len;	/* space to reserve at tail */
+	unsigned short		__pad3;
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_IP_ROUTE_CLASSID
 	__u32			tclassid;
 #else
@@ -437,7 +437,6 @@ static inline void dst_rcu_free(struct rcu_head *head)
 
 static inline void dst_confirm(struct dst_entry *dst)
 {
-	dst->pending_confirm = 1;
 }
 
 static inline int dst_neigh_output(struct dst_entry *dst, struct neighbour *n,
@@ -445,15 +444,6 @@ static inline int dst_neigh_output(struct dst_entry *dst, struct neighbour *n,
 {
 	const struct hh_cache *hh;
 
-	if (dst->pending_confirm) {
-		unsigned long now = jiffies;
-
-		dst->pending_confirm = 0;
-		/* avoid dirtying neighbour */
-		if (n->confirmed != now)
-			n->confirmed = now;
-	}
-
 	hh = &n->hh;
 	if ((n->nud_state & NUD_CONNECTED) && hh->hh_len)
 		return neigh_hh_output(hh, skb);

net/core/dst.c

@@ -190,7 +190,6 @@ void dst_init(struct dst_entry *dst, struct dst_ops *ops,
 	dst->__use = 0;
 	dst->lastuse = jiffies;
 	dst->flags = flags;
-	dst->pending_confirm = 0;
 	dst->next = NULL;
 	if (!(flags & DST_NOCOUNT))
 		dst_entries_add(ops, 1);