netdev - [PATCH] ipv6: remove superfluous nla

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Date:	Sat,  9 Mar 2013 16:57:00 +0100
From:	Mathias Krause <minipli@...glemail.com>
To:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, Mathias Krause <minipli@...glemail.com>
Subject: [PATCH] ipv6: remove superfluous nla_data() NULL pointer checks

nla_data() cannot return NULL, so these NULL pointer checks are
superfluous.

Signed-off-by: Mathias Krause <minipli@...glemail.com>
---
 net/ipv6/addrlabel.c |    6 ------
 1 file changed, 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv6/addrlabel.c b/net/ipv6/addrlabel.c
index aad6435..6f226c8 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/addrlabel.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/addrlabel.c
@@ -436,10 +436,7 @@ static int ip6addrlbl_newdel(struct sk_buff *skb, struct nlmsghdr *nlh,
 
 	if (!tb[IFAL_ADDRESS])
 		return -EINVAL;
-
 	pfx = nla_data(tb[IFAL_ADDRESS]);
-	if (!pfx)
-		return -EINVAL;
 
 	if (!tb[IFAL_LABEL])
 		return -EINVAL;
@@ -561,10 +558,7 @@ static int ip6addrlbl_get(struct sk_buff *in_skb, struct nlmsghdr* nlh,
 
 	if (!tb[IFAL_ADDRESS])
 		return -EINVAL;
-
 	addr = nla_data(tb[IFAL_ADDRESS]);
-	if (!addr)
-		return -EINVAL;
 
 	rcu_read_lock();
 	p = __ipv6_addr_label(net, addr, ipv6_addr_type(addr), ifal->ifal_index);
-- 
1.7.10.4

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