netdev - [PATCH net] mac80211: tx: delete a redundant if statement in ieee80211_check_fast

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Date:   Wed, 13 Apr 2022 17:19:02 +0800
From:   Hangyu Hua <hbh25y@...il.com>
To:     johannes@...solutions.net, davem@...emloft.net, kuba@...nel.org,
        pabeni@...hat.com
Cc:     linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Hangyu Hua <hbh25y@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH net] mac80211: tx: delete a redundant if statement in ieee80211_check_fast_xmit()

If statement is meaningless because the code will goto out regardless of
whether fast_tx is NULL or not.

Signed-off-by: Hangyu Hua <hbh25y@...il.com>
---
 net/mac80211/tx.c | 2 --
 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/mac80211/tx.c b/net/mac80211/tx.c
index b6b20f38de0e..0e53d9d60cd4 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/tx.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/tx.c
@@ -3150,8 +3150,6 @@ void ieee80211_check_fast_xmit(struct sta_info *sta)
 
 	fast_tx = kmemdup(&build, sizeof(build), GFP_ATOMIC);
 	/* if the kmemdup fails, continue w/o fast_tx */
-	if (!fast_tx)
-		goto out;
 
  out:
 	/* we might have raced against another call to this function */
-- 
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