From: Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2014 09:25:12 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: netdev: remove potentially harmful checks
X-Git-Tag: v3.15-rc1~47^2~2
X-Git-Url: https://asedeno.scripts.mit.edu/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=6859e7df6d9045a461412777e63bd8cef12f9705;p=linux.git

netdev: remove potentially harmful checks

Currently we're checking a variable for != NULL after actually
dereferencing it, in netdev_lower_get_next_private*().

It's counter-intuitive at best, and can lead to faulty usage (as it implies
that the variable can be NULL), so fix it by removing the useless checks.

Reported-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
CC: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
CC: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
CC: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
CC: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
CC: stephen hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
CC: Jerry Chu <hkchu@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
---

diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index 577701839f52..14dac0654f28 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -4589,8 +4589,7 @@ void *netdev_lower_get_next_private(struct net_device *dev,
 	if (&lower->list == &dev->adj_list.lower)
 		return NULL;
 
-	if (iter)
-		*iter = lower->list.next;
+	*iter = lower->list.next;
 
 	return lower->private;
 }
@@ -4618,8 +4617,7 @@ void *netdev_lower_get_next_private_rcu(struct net_device *dev,
 	if (&lower->list == &dev->adj_list.lower)
 		return NULL;
 
-	if (iter)
-		*iter = &lower->list;
+	*iter = &lower->list;
 
 	return lower->private;
 }