netdev - Re: [patch] rtnetlink: remove an unneeded test

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Date:	Wed, 14 Aug 2013 12:35:24 -0700
From:	ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To:	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
Cc:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@...el.com>,
	Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>,
	Vlad Yasevich <vyasevic@...hat.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] rtnetlink: remove an unneeded test

Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com> writes:

> We know that "dev" is a valid pointer at this point, so we can remove
> the test and clean up a little.

Quite right.

Reviewed-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>

>
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
>
> diff --git a/net/core/rtnetlink.c b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
> index 618dbe4..e7e058e 100644
> --- a/net/core/rtnetlink.c
> +++ b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
> @@ -1867,10 +1867,10 @@ replay:
>  		else
>  			err = register_netdevice(dev);
>  
> -		if (err < 0 && !IS_ERR(dev))
> +		if (err < 0) {
>  			free_netdev(dev);
> -		if (err < 0)
>  			goto out;
> +		}
>  
>  		err = rtnl_configure_link(dev, ifm);
>  		if (err < 0)
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