From 433131ba03c511a84e1fda5669c70cf8b44702e1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Borkmann Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 14:45:26 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] net: sctp: remove NULL check in sctp_assoc_update_retran_path This is basically just to let Coverity et al shut up. Remove an unneeded NULL check in sctp_assoc_update_retran_path(). It is safe to remove it, because in sctp_assoc_update_retran_path() we iterate over the list of transports, our own transport which is asoc->peer.retran_path included. In the iteration, we skip the list head element and transports in state SCTP_UNCONFIRMED. Such transports came from peer addresses received in INIT/INIT-ACK address parameters. They are not yet confirmed by a heartbeat and not available for data transfers. We know however that in the list of transports, even if it contains such elements, it at least contains our asoc->peer.retran_path as well, so even if next to that element, we only encounter SCTP_UNCONFIRMED transports, we are always going to fall back to asoc->peer.retran_path through sctp_trans_elect_best(), as that is for sure not SCTP_UNCONFIRMED as per fbdf501c9374 ("sctp: Do no select unconfirmed transports for retransmissions"). Whenever we call sctp_trans_elect_best() it will give us a non-NULL element back, and therefore when we break out of the loop, we are guaranteed to have a non-NULL transport pointer, and can remove the NULL check. Reported-by: Dan Carpenter Reported-by: Dave Jones Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- net/sctp/associola.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/sctp/associola.c b/net/sctp/associola.c index ee13d28..4f6d6f9 100644 --- a/net/sctp/associola.c +++ b/net/sctp/associola.c @@ -1319,8 +1319,7 @@ void sctp_assoc_update_retran_path(struct sctp_association *asoc) break; } - if (trans_next != NULL) - asoc->peer.retran_path = trans_next; + asoc->peer.retran_path = trans_next; pr_debug("%s: association:%p updated new path to addr:%pISpc\n", __func__, asoc, &asoc->peer.retran_path->ipaddr.sa); -- 2.7.4