mac80211: don't check if key is NULL in ieee80211_key_link()
authorLuca Coelho <luciano.coelho@intel.com>
Fri, 30 Aug 2019 11:24:50 +0000 (14:24 +0300)
committerJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Wed, 11 Sep 2019 07:33:28 +0000 (09:33 +0200)
We already assume that key is not NULL and dereference it in a few
other places before we check whether it is NULL, so the check is
unnecessary.  Remove it.

Fixes: 96fc6efb9ad9 ("mac80211: IEEE 802.11 Extended Key ID support")
Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190830112451.21655-8-luca@coelho.fi
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
net/mac80211/key.c

index 93ea03b86b80636620cb0fecd990011dd72ff6af..0f889b919b06c1482805b5f0ce95bb8ba4cc9cad 100644 (file)
@@ -793,7 +793,7 @@ int ieee80211_key_link(struct ieee80211_key *key,
 
        /* Non-pairwise keys must also not switch the cipher on rekey */
        if (!pairwise) {
-               if (key && old_key && old_key->conf.cipher != key->conf.cipher)
+               if (old_key && old_key->conf.cipher != key->conf.cipher)
                        goto out;
        }