tcp: remove retransmit_skb_hint clearing from failure

This doesn't much sense here afaict, probably never has. Since
fragmenting and collapsing deal the hints by themselves, there
should be very little reason for the rexmit loop to do that.

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
index b5b4ddcdda4167309fcc020e7b22f07142a7f21b..f900fae8b87e9512fee2a7f0c213f46283dc79f8 100644 (file)
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
@@ -2096,10 +2096,8 @@ begin_fwd:
                if (sacked & (TCPCB_SACKED_ACKED|TCPCB_SACKED_RETRANS))
                        continue;
 
-               if (tcp_retransmit_skb(sk, skb)) {
-                       tp->retransmit_skb_hint = NULL;
+               if (tcp_retransmit_skb(sk, skb))
                        return;
-               }
                NET_INC_STATS_BH(sock_net(sk), mib_idx);
 
                if (skb == tcp_write_queue_head(sk))