From c750360938b403e6cc193d293cfbcb099dd6c60e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 22:44:52 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] [IPV6]: remove useless test in ip6_append_data

We've already dereferenced 'np' a dozen
times at this point, so it's safe to say it's not null.

Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
---
 net/ipv6/ip6_output.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c b/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c
index 7fefd9998466..4fbc40b13f19 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c
@@ -890,7 +890,7 @@ int ip6_append_data(struct sock *sk, int getfrag(void *from, char *to,
 		np->cork.hop_limit = hlimit;
 		np->cork.tclass = tclass;
 		mtu = dst_mtu(rt->u.dst.path);
-		if (np && np->frag_size < mtu) {
+		if (np->frag_size < mtu) {
 			if (np->frag_size)
 				mtu = np->frag_size;
 		}
-- 
2.30.9