xtables: remove xtables_set_revision function

Since iptables uses its own copies of the header files anyway where the
revision field is exposed, there is no reach to access name[] beyond its
size.

Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/xtables.c b/xtables.c
index b4c4f6b3..ed082f3f 100644
--- a/xtables.c
+++ b/xtables.c
@@ -114,14 +114,6 @@ struct option *xtables_merge_options(struct option *oldopts,
 	return merge;
 }
 
-void xtables_set_revision(char *name, u_int8_t revision)
-{
-	/* Old kernel sources don't have ".revision" field,
-	*            but we stole a byte from name. */
-	name[XT_FUNCTION_MAXNAMELEN - 2] = '\0';
-	name[XT_FUNCTION_MAXNAMELEN - 1] = revision;
-}
-
 /**
  * xtables_afinfo - protocol family dependent information
  * @kmod:		kernel module basename (e.g. "ip_tables")