netdev - [PATCH net-next] net/hsr: Remove left-over never-true conditional code.

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Date:	Fri, 11 Jul 2014 18:21:12 +0200
From:	Arvid Brodin <arvid.brodin@...en.se>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
CC:	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>,
	<kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH net-next] net/hsr: Remove left-over never-true conditional
 code.

MacAddressB is an array (unsigned char MacAddressB[ETH_ALEN]) and is allocated
as a part of *node_dst (which is a struct hsr_node). So the condition is always
false.

Detected by Dan Carpenter.

Signed-off-by: Arvid Brodin <arvid.brodin@...en.se>
---
 net/hsr/hsr_framereg.c | 4 ----
 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/hsr/hsr_framereg.c b/net/hsr/hsr_framereg.c
index c709c13..bace124 100644
--- a/net/hsr/hsr_framereg.c
+++ b/net/hsr/hsr_framereg.c
@@ -290,10 +290,6 @@ void hsr_addr_subst_dest(struct hsr_node *node_src, struct sk_buff *skb,
 	}
 	if (port->type != node_dst->AddrB_port)
 		return;
-	if (!node_dst->MacAddressB) {
-		WARN_ONCE(1, "%s: No MacAddressB\n", __func__);
-		return;
-	}
 
 	ether_addr_copy(eth_hdr(skb)->h_dest, node_dst->MacAddressB);
 }
-- 
1.8.3.2

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