[TIPC]: Remove redundant NULL check when discarding buffers
authorAllan Stephens <allan.stephens@windriver.com>
Wed, 16 Apr 2008 02:01:43 +0000 (19:01 -0700)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Wed, 16 Apr 2008 02:01:43 +0000 (19:01 -0700)
This patch eliminates a null pointer check when discarding a
TIPC message buffer, since kfree_skb() already handles this
situation.

Acknowledgements to Florian Westphal (fw@strlen.de> for
suggesting this enhancement.

Signed-off-by: Allan Stephens <allan.stephens@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
net/tipc/core.h

index 3fe9b70..3229d29 100644 (file)
@@ -334,8 +334,7 @@ static inline struct sk_buff *buf_acquire(u32 size)
 
 static inline void buf_discard(struct sk_buff *skb)
 {
-       if (likely(skb != NULL))
-               kfree_skb(skb);
+       kfree_skb(skb);
 }
 
 #endif