These broke existing apps, and the checks are superfluous as the values being verified aren't even used. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
@@ -761,12 +761,6 @@ static int packet_sendmsg(struct kiocb *iocb, struct socket *sock,
if (dev->hard_header) {
int res;
err = -EINVAL;
- if (saddr) {
- if (saddr->sll_halen != dev->addr_len)
- goto out_free;
- if (saddr->sll_hatype != dev->type)
- }
res = dev->hard_header(skb, dev, ntohs(proto), addr, NULL, len);
if (sock->type != SOCK_DGRAM) {
skb->tail = skb->data;