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[PATCH net-next v16 12/14] net: ethtool: strset: Remove unnecessary check on genl_info

From: Maxime Chevallier <maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com>
Date: 2024-07-05 13:27:28
Also in: linux-arm-kernel, lkml
Subsystem: networking [ethtool], networking [general], the rest · Maintainers: Andrew Lunn, Jakub Kicinski, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds

All call paths coming from genetlink initialize the genl_info structure,
so that command handlers may use them.

Remove an un-needed check for NULL when crafting error messages in the
strset command. This prevents smatch from assuming this pointer may be
NULL, and therefore warn if it's being used without a NULL check.

Signed-off-by: Maxime Chevallier <maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com>
Reported-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Reported-by: kernel test robot <redacted>
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <redacted>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/r/202407030529.aOYGI0u2-lkp@intel.com/ (local)
---
 net/ethtool/strset.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/ethtool/strset.c b/net/ethtool/strset.c
index c678b484a079..56b99606f00b 100644
--- a/net/ethtool/strset.c
+++ b/net/ethtool/strset.c
@@ -289,8 +289,7 @@ static int strset_prepare_data(const struct ethnl_req_info *req_base,
 		for (i = 0; i < ETH_SS_COUNT; i++) {
 			if ((req_info->req_ids & (1U << i)) &&
 			    data->sets[i].per_dev) {
-				if (info)
-					GENL_SET_ERR_MSG(info, "requested per device strings without dev");
+				GENL_SET_ERR_MSG(info, "requested per device strings without dev");
 				return -EINVAL;
 			}
 		}
-- 
2.45.1
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