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Date:	Tue, 6 Aug 2013 15:04:42 +0300
From:	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
To:	"Rustad, Mark D" <mark.d.rustad@...el.com>
Cc:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@....inr.ac.ru>,
	James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>,
	Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>,
	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>,
	"<netdev@...r.kernel.org>" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"<kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org>" <kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] net: remove an unneeded check

On Mon, Aug 05, 2013 at 06:18:01PM +0000, Rustad, Mark D wrote:
> On Jul 29, 2013, at 12:15 PM, Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com> wrote:
> 
> > "ifa->ifa_label" is an array inside the in_ifaddr struct.  It can never
> > be NULL so we can remove this check.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
> > 
> > diff --git a/net/ipv4/devinet.c b/net/ipv4/devinet.c
> > index 8d48c39..1b7f7ae 100644
> > --- a/net/ipv4/devinet.c
> > +++ b/net/ipv4/devinet.c
> > @@ -1124,10 +1124,7 @@ static int inet_gifconf(struct net_device *dev, char __user *buf, int len)
> > 		if (len < (int) sizeof(ifr))
> > 			break;
> > 		memset(&ifr, 0, sizeof(struct ifreq));
> > -		if (ifa->ifa_label)
> 
> Is there any possibility that this was meant to check ifa->ifa_label[0]?

It has been this way for almost 16 years and no one has complained.
I should have put that into the changelog though, you are right.

regards,
dan carpenter

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