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Subject: Re: [PATCH] tcp: remove redundant check on tskb
From:   David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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From: Colin King <colin.king@canonical.com>
Date: Thu,  4 Apr 2019 15:46:03 +0100

> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
> 
> The non-null check on tskb is always false because it is in an else
> path of a check on tskb and hence tskb is null in this code block.
> This is check is therefore redundant and can be removed as well
> as the label coalesc.
> 
> if (tsbk) {
>         ...
> } else {
>         ...
>         if (unlikely(!skb)) {
>                 if (tskb)       /* can never be true, redundant code */
>                         goto coalesc;
>                 return;
>         }
> }
> 
> Addresses-Coverity: ("Logically dead code")
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>

Applied to net-next.