netdev - [patch] bridge: cleanup: remove unneed check

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Date:	Sat, 6 Mar 2010 14:14:09 +0300
From:	Dan Carpenter <error27@...il.com>
To:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Cc:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org>,
	bridge@...ts.linux-foundation.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [patch] bridge: cleanup: remove unneed check

We dereference "port" on the lines immediately before and immediately 
after the test so port should hopefully never be null here.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@...il.com>

diff --git a/net/bridge/br_multicast.c b/net/bridge/br_multicast.c
index 2559fb5..8b25887 100644
--- a/net/bridge/br_multicast.c
+++ b/net/bridge/br_multicast.c
@@ -627,8 +627,8 @@ static void br_multicast_port_query_expired(unsigned long data)
 	struct net_bridge *br = port->br;
 
 	spin_lock(&br->multicast_lock);
-	if (port && (port->state == BR_STATE_DISABLED ||
-		     port->state == BR_STATE_BLOCKING))
+	if (port->state == BR_STATE_DISABLED ||
+	    port->state == BR_STATE_BLOCKING)
 		goto out;
 
 	if (port->multicast_startup_queries_sent <
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