[PATCH net-next] tcp: remove unused hash_size from struct tcp_out_options
From: Keita Morisaki
Date: Wed Mar 04 2026 - 21:27:35 EST
hash_size is declared but never read. The MD5 path always uses a
fixed size of 16, and the TCP-AO path uses tcp_ao_maclen().
Suggested-by: Jakub Sitnicki <jakub@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Keita Morisaki <kmta1236@xxxxxxxxx>
---
net/ipv4/tcp_output.c | 1 -
1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
index 63ee037f46e50..f0e04ebd8b723 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
@@ -441,7 +441,6 @@ struct tcp_out_options {
u8 ws; /* window scale, 0 to disable */
u8 num_accecn_fields:7, /* number of AccECN fields needed */
use_synack_ecn_bytes:1; /* Use synack_ecn_bytes or not */
- u8 hash_size; /* bytes in hash_location */
__u8 *hash_location; /* temporary pointer, overloaded */
__u32 tsval, tsecr; /* need to include OPTION_TS */
struct tcp_fastopen_cookie *fastopen_cookie; /* Fast open cookie */
base-commit: 21fc6b53f12379f3f9b29830be3597a322261df8
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2.34.1