linux-kernel - [PATCH] cxgb4: Remove some dead code

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Date:   Sat, 10 Jun 2017 11:19:20 +0200
From:   Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@...adoo.fr>
To:     swise@...lsio.com, dledford@...hat.com, sean.hefty@...el.com,
        hal.rosenstock@...il.com
Cc:     linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
        Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@...adoo.fr>
Subject: [PATCH] cxgb4: Remove some dead code

This 'BUG_ON(!ep)' can never trigger because we have:
   if (!ep)
      return 0;
just a few lines above. So it can be removed safely.

Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@...adoo.fr>
---
 drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/cm.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/cm.c b/drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/cm.c
index 2f1136bf7b1f..815d7dfbdfb1 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/cm.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/cm.c
@@ -2879,7 +2879,6 @@ static int close_con_rpl(struct c4iw_dev *dev, struct sk_buff *skb)
 		return 0;
 
 	pr_debug("%s ep %p tid %u\n", __func__, ep, ep->hwtid);
-	BUG_ON(!ep);
 
 	/* The cm_id may be null if we failed to connect */
 	mutex_lock(&ep->com.mutex);
-- 
2.11.0