From: Daniel Borkmann Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2014 11:03:29 +0000 (+0200) Subject: net: sctp: spare unnecessary comparison in sctp_trans_elect_best X-Git-Tag: v4.9.8~5834^2~2 X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ea4f19c1f81d4bf709c74e3789ec785828bc6e51;p=platform%2Fkernel%2Flinux-rpi3.git net: sctp: spare unnecessary comparison in sctp_trans_elect_best When both transports are the same, we don't have to go down that road only to realize that we will return the very same transport. We are guaranteed that curr is always non-NULL. Therefore, just short-circuit this special case. Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann Acked-by: Neil Horman Acked-by: Vlad Yasevich Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- diff --git a/net/sctp/associola.c b/net/sctp/associola.c index aaafb32..104fae4 100644 --- a/net/sctp/associola.c +++ b/net/sctp/associola.c @@ -1245,7 +1245,7 @@ static struct sctp_transport *sctp_trans_elect_best(struct sctp_transport *curr, { u8 score_curr, score_best; - if (best == NULL) + if (best == NULL || curr == best) return curr; score_curr = sctp_trans_score(curr);