linux-kernel - [PATCH] net/sched: remove redundant null check on head

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Date:   Wed,  3 May 2017 14:50:40 +0100
From:   Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>
To:     Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>,
        Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>,
        Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] net/sched: remove redundant null check on head

From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>

head is previously null checked and so the 2nd null check on head
is redundant and therefore can be removed.

Detected by CoverityScan, CID#1399505 ("Logically dead code")

Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
---
 net/sched/cls_matchall.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/sched/cls_matchall.c b/net/sched/cls_matchall.c
index 2efb36c08f2a..dee469fed967 100644
--- a/net/sched/cls_matchall.c
+++ b/net/sched/cls_matchall.c
@@ -203,8 +203,7 @@ static int mall_change(struct net *net, struct sk_buff *in_skb,
 
 	*arg = (unsigned long) head;
 	rcu_assign_pointer(tp->root, new);
-	if (head)
-		call_rcu(&head->rcu, mall_destroy_rcu);
+	call_rcu(&head->rcu, mall_destroy_rcu);
 	return 0;
 
 err_replace_hw_filter:
-- 
2.11.0