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| author | Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com> | 2014-03-13 14:45:26 +0100 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2014-03-13 13:23:52 -0400 |
| commit | 433131ba03c511a84e1fda5669c70cf8b44702e1 (patch) | |
| tree | 94031203cc2483d344e50fd65249cb69219a1b93 /net/sctp/associola.c | |
| parent | 8a83d9396a4945dcaa129b14a725311e5846b2d5 (diff) | |
| download | linux-433131ba03c511a84e1fda5669c70cf8b44702e1.tar.bz2 | |
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 <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/sctp/associola.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/sctp/associola.c | 3 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/net/sctp/associola.c b/net/sctp/associola.c index ee13d28d39d1..4f6d6f9d1274 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); |