rh cannot be NULL here since its already checked above assignment and is being dereferenced before. Remove the redundant null check. Signed-off-by: Gaurav Singh <gaurav1086@xxxxxxxxx> --- net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6t_rt.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6t_rt.c b/net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6t_rt.c index f633dc84ca3f..733c83d38b30 100644 --- a/net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6t_rt.c +++ b/net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6t_rt.c @@ -89,8 +89,7 @@ static bool rt_mt6(const struct sk_buff *skb, struct xt_action_param *par) !((rtinfo->flags & IP6T_RT_RES) && (((const struct rt0_hdr *)rh)->reserved))); - ret = (rh != NULL) && - (segsleft_match(rtinfo->segsleft[0], rtinfo->segsleft[1], + ret = (segsleft_match(rtinfo->segsleft[0], rtinfo->segsleft[1], rh->segments_left, !!(rtinfo->invflags & IP6T_RT_INV_SGS))) && (!(rtinfo->flags & IP6T_RT_LEN) || -- 2.17.1