A warning message reported by a static analysis tool: " Either the condition 'if(skb)' is redundant or there is possible null pointer dereference: skb. " Remove the unused redundant check. Signed-off-by: Yunfeng Ye <yeyunfeng@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/crypto/chelsio/chtls/chtls_io.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/crypto/chelsio/chtls/chtls_io.c b/drivers/crypto/chelsio/chtls/chtls_io.c index 0891ab8..0125f4e 100644 --- a/drivers/crypto/chelsio/chtls/chtls_io.c +++ b/drivers/crypto/chelsio/chtls/chtls_io.c @@ -1841,8 +1841,7 @@ int chtls_recvmsg(struct sock *sk, struct msghdr *msg, size_t len, tp->urg_data = 0; if (avail + offset >= skb->len) { - if (likely(skb)) - chtls_free_skb(sk, skb); + chtls_free_skb(sk, skb); buffers_freed++; if (copied >= target && -- 2.7.4.3