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* [Patch net-next] ipv6: remove a useless NULL check
@ 2012-10-29  3:43 Cong Wang
  2012-11-03 18:52 ` David Miller
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Cong Wang @ 2012-10-29  3:43 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: netdev; +Cc: David S. Miller, Cong Wang

In dev_forward_change(), it is useless to check if idev->dev
is NULL, it is always non-NULL here.

Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>

---
diff --git a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
index 8f0b12a..c9b1cf3 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
@@ -607,7 +607,7 @@ static void dev_forward_change(struct inet6_dev *idev)
 	dev = idev->dev;
 	if (idev->cnf.forwarding)
 		dev_disable_lro(dev);
-	if (dev && (dev->flags & IFF_MULTICAST)) {
+	if (dev->flags & IFF_MULTICAST) {
 		if (idev->cnf.forwarding)
 			ipv6_dev_mc_inc(dev, &in6addr_linklocal_allrouters);
 		else

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* Re: [Patch net-next] ipv6: remove a useless NULL check
  2012-10-29  3:43 [Patch net-next] ipv6: remove a useless NULL check Cong Wang
@ 2012-11-03 18:52 ` David Miller
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: David Miller @ 2012-11-03 18:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: amwang; +Cc: netdev

From: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2012 11:43:53 +0800

> In dev_forward_change(), it is useless to check if idev->dev
> is NULL, it is always non-NULL here.
> 
> Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
> Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>

Applied.

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