This was added by commit 59b9997b (Revert "net: maintain namespace
isolation between vlan and real device").
In fact, before the initial commit - the one that is reverted -, this
statement was not present.
'skb->dev = dev' is already done in eth_type_trans(), which is call just
after.
Spotted-by: Alain Ritoux <alain.ritoux@6wind.com>
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>