netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: caif: remove redundant null check on frontpkt

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Date:   Mon, 17 Sep 2018 18:50:58 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     colin.king@...onical.com
Cc:     dmitry.tarnyagin@...kless.no, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: caif: remove redundant null check on frontpkt

From: Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2018 18:19:16 +0100

> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
> 
> It is impossible for frontpkt to be null at the point of the null
> check because it has been assigned from rearpkt and there is no
> way realpkt can be null at the point of the assignment because
> of the sanity checking and exit paths taken previously. Remove
> the redundant null check.
> 
> Detected by CoverityScan, CID#114434 ("Logically dead code")
> 
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>

Appied to net-next with typo fixed.

Thanks.