[PATCH] myri10ge: remove an unneed NULL check

Xiaomeng Tong posted 1 patch 4 years, 3 months ago
drivers/net/ethernet/myricom/myri10ge/myri10ge.c | 10 ++++------
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
[PATCH] myri10ge: remove an unneed NULL check
Posted by Xiaomeng Tong 4 years, 3 months ago
The define of skb_list_walk_safe(first, skb, next_skb) is:
  for ((skb) = (first), (next_skb) = (skb) ? (skb)->next : NULL; (skb);  \
     (skb) = (next_skb), (next_skb) = (skb) ? (skb)->next : NULL)

Thus, if the 'segs' passed as 'first' into the skb_list_walk_safe is NULL,
the loop will exit immediately. In other words, it can be sure the 'segs'
is non-NULL when we run inside the loop. So just remove the unnecessary
NULL check.

Signed-off-by: Xiaomeng Tong <xiam0nd.tong@gmail.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/myricom/myri10ge/myri10ge.c | 10 ++++------
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/myricom/myri10ge/myri10ge.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/myricom/myri10ge/myri10ge.c
index 50ac3ee2577a..424160dd650c 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/myricom/myri10ge/myri10ge.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/myricom/myri10ge/myri10ge.c
@@ -2903,12 +2903,10 @@ static netdev_tx_t myri10ge_sw_tso(struct sk_buff *skb,
 		status = myri10ge_xmit(curr, dev);
 		if (status != 0) {
 			dev_kfree_skb_any(curr);
-			if (segs != NULL) {
-				curr = segs;
-				segs = next;
-				curr->next = NULL;
-				dev_kfree_skb_any(segs);
-			}
+			curr = segs;
+			segs = next;
+			curr->next = NULL;
+			dev_kfree_skb_any(segs);
 			goto drop;
 		}
 	}
-- 
2.17.1