linux-kernel - [PATCH] [net/ethtool] ethnl_set_linkmodes: remove redundant null check

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Message-Id: <20200731045908.32466-1-gaurav1086@gmail.com>
Date:   Fri, 31 Jul 2020 00:58:44 -0400
From:   Gaurav Singh <gaurav1086@...il.com>
To:     gaurav1086@...il.com, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@...e.cz>,
        Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
        Oleksij Rempel <linux@...pel-privat.de>,
        YueHaibing <yuehaibing@...wei.com>,
        Aya Levin <ayal@...lanox.com>,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org (open list:NETWORKING [GENERAL]),
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org (open list)
Subject: [PATCH] [net/ethtool] ethnl_set_linkmodes: remove redundant null check

info cannot be NULL here since its being accessed earlier
in the function: nlmsg_parse(info->nlhdr...). Remove this
redundant NULL check.

Signed-off-by: Gaurav Singh <gaurav1086@...il.com>
---
 net/ethtool/linkmodes.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/ethtool/linkmodes.c b/net/ethtool/linkmodes.c
index fd4f3e58c6f6..b595d87fa880 100644
--- a/net/ethtool/linkmodes.c
+++ b/net/ethtool/linkmodes.c
@@ -406,8 +406,7 @@ int ethnl_set_linkmodes(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
 
 	ret = __ethtool_get_link_ksettings(dev, &ksettings);
 	if (ret < 0) {
-		if (info)
-			GENL_SET_ERR_MSG(info, "failed to retrieve link settings");
+		GENL_SET_ERR_MSG(info, "failed to retrieve link settings");
 		goto out_ops;
 	}
 
-- 
2.17.1