Re: [patch] net: remove an unneeded check

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On Mon, Aug 05, 2013 at 06:18:01PM +0000, Rustad, Mark D wrote:
> On Jul 29, 2013, at 12:15 PM, Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > "ifa->ifa_label" is an array inside the in_ifaddr struct.  It can never
> > be NULL so we can remove this check.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > diff --git a/net/ipv4/devinet.c b/net/ipv4/devinet.c
> > index 8d48c39..1b7f7ae 100644
> > --- a/net/ipv4/devinet.c
> > +++ b/net/ipv4/devinet.c
> > @@ -1124,10 +1124,7 @@ static int inet_gifconf(struct net_device *dev, char __user *buf, int len)
> > 		if (len < (int) sizeof(ifr))
> > 			break;
> > 		memset(&ifr, 0, sizeof(struct ifreq));
> > -		if (ifa->ifa_label)
> 
> Is there any possibility that this was meant to check ifa->ifa_label[0]?

It has been this way for almost 16 years and no one has complained.
I should have put that into the changelog though, you are right.

regards,
dan carpenter

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