Currently we never call unregister_netdev for the loopback device so
it is impossible for us to reach inetdev_destroy with the loopback
device.  So the test in inetdev_destroy is unnecessary.

Further when testing with my network namespace patches removing
unregistering the loopback device and calling inetdev_destroy works
fine so there appears to be no reason for avoiding unregistering the
loopback device.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
---
 net/ipv4/devinet.c |    2 --
 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv4/devinet.c b/net/ipv4/devinet.c
index affea9b..e7f2b02 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/devinet.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/devinet.c
@@ -203,8 +203,6 @@ static void inetdev_destroy(struct in_device *in_dev)
 	ASSERT_RTNL();
 
 	dev = in_dev->dev;
-	if (dev == loopback_dev)
-		return;
 
 	in_dev->dead = 1;
 
-- 
1.5.3.rc6.17.g1911

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