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ipv6: cleanup: remove unneeded null check

Message ID 20100429143034.GI29093@bicker
State Accepted, archived
Delegated to: David Miller
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Dan Carpenter April 29, 2010, 2:30 p.m. UTC
We dereference "sk" unconditionally elsewhere in the function.  

This was left over from:  b30bd282 "ip6_xmit: remove unnecessary NULL
ptr check".  According to that commit message, "the sk argument to 
ip6_xmit is never NULL nowadays since the skb->priority assigment 
expects a valid socket."

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>

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David Miller April 30, 2010, 11:42 p.m. UTC | #1
From: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 16:30:35 +0200

> We dereference "sk" unconditionally elsewhere in the function.  
> 
> This was left over from:  b30bd282 "ip6_xmit: remove unnecessary NULL
> ptr check".  According to that commit message, "the sk argument to 
> ip6_xmit is never NULL nowadays since the skb->priority assigment 
> expects a valid socket."
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>

Applied, thanks Dan.
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Patch

diff --git a/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c b/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c
index 75d5ef8..d26c6ae 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c
@@ -218,8 +218,7 @@  int ip6_xmit(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb, struct flowi *fl,
 			}
 			kfree_skb(skb);
 			skb = skb2;
-			if (sk)
-				skb_set_owner_w(skb, sk);
+			skb_set_owner_w(skb, sk);
 		}
 		if (opt->opt_flen)
 			ipv6_push_frag_opts(skb, opt, &proto);