From: Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@xxxxxxxxx> We already assume that key is not NULL and dereference it in a few other places before we check whether it is NULL, so the check is unnecessary. Remove it. Fixes: 96fc6efb9ad9 ("mac80211: IEEE 802.11 Extended Key ID support") Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@xxxxxxxxx> --- net/mac80211/key.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/mac80211/key.c b/net/mac80211/key.c index 93ea03b86b80..0f889b919b06 100644 --- a/net/mac80211/key.c +++ b/net/mac80211/key.c @@ -793,7 +793,7 @@ int ieee80211_key_link(struct ieee80211_key *key, /* Non-pairwise keys must also not switch the cipher on rekey */ if (!pairwise) { - if (key && old_key && old_key->conf.cipher != key->conf.cipher) + if (old_key && old_key->conf.cipher != key->conf.cipher) goto out; } -- 2.23.0.rc1