netdev - [PATCH 5/5] sctp: Adjust one function call together with a variable assignment

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Date:   Mon, 22 May 2017 18:41:45 +0200
From:   SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
To:     linux-sctp@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>,
        Vlad Yasevich <vyasevich@...il.com>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 5/5] sctp: Adjust one function call together with a variable
 assignment

From: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
Date: Mon, 22 May 2017 18:15:12 +0200

The script "checkpatch.pl" pointed information out like the following.

ERROR: do not use assignment in if condition

Thus fix the affected source code place.

Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
---
 net/sctp/protocol.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/sctp/protocol.c b/net/sctp/protocol.c
index 057479b7bd72..be2fe3ebae78 100644
--- a/net/sctp/protocol.c
+++ b/net/sctp/protocol.c
@@ -141,7 +141,8 @@ static void sctp_v4_copy_addrlist(struct list_head *addrlist,
 	struct sctp_sockaddr_entry *addr;
 
 	rcu_read_lock();
-	if ((in_dev = __in_dev_get_rcu(dev)) == NULL) {
+	in_dev = __in_dev_get_rcu(dev);
+	if (!in_dev) {
 		rcu_read_unlock();
 		return;
 	}
-- 
2.13.0