From: Dan Carpenter Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2016 08:05:28 +0000 Subject: [patch] tipc: remove an unnecessary NULL check Message-Id: <20160427080528.GA22469@mwanda> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Jon Maloy Cc: Ying Xue , "David S. Miller" , netdev@vger.kernel.org, tipc-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org This is never called with a NULL "buf" and anyway, we dereference 's' on the lines before so it would Oops before we reach the check. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter diff --git a/net/tipc/subscr.c b/net/tipc/subscr.c index 79de588..0dd0224 100644 --- a/net/tipc/subscr.c +++ b/net/tipc/subscr.c @@ -326,8 +326,7 @@ static void tipc_subscrb_rcv_cb(struct net *net, int conid, return tipc_subscrp_cancel(s, subscriber); } - if (s) - tipc_subscrp_subscribe(net, s, subscriber, swap); + tipc_subscrp_subscribe(net, s, subscriber, swap); } /* Handle one request to establish a new subscriber */