netdev - [PATCH] cfg80211: remove unnecessary null pointer check in cfg80211_netdev_notifier

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Message-ID: <1536405688-26239-1-git-send-email-zhongjiang@huawei.com>
Date:   Sat, 8 Sep 2018 19:21:28 +0800
From:   zhong jiang <zhongjiang@...wei.com>
To:     <johannes@...solutions.net>, <davem@...emloft.net>
CC:     <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] cfg80211: remove unnecessary null pointer check in cfg80211_netdev_notifier_call

The iterator in list_for_each_entry_safe is never null, therefore, remove
the redundant null pointer check.

Signed-off-by: zhong jiang <zhongjiang@...wei.com>
---
 net/wireless/core.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/wireless/core.c b/net/wireless/core.c
index a88551f..4d5215e 100644
--- a/net/wireless/core.c
+++ b/net/wireless/core.c
@@ -1238,7 +1238,7 @@ static int cfg80211_netdev_notifier_call(struct notifier_block *nb,
 
 		list_for_each_entry_safe(pos, tmp,
 					 &rdev->sched_scan_req_list, list) {
-			if (WARN_ON(pos && pos->dev == wdev->netdev))
+			if (WARN_ON(pos->dev == wdev->netdev))
 				cfg80211_stop_sched_scan_req(rdev, pos, false);
 		}
 
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1.7.12.4