From c3f6c21d6e60e39c81c27f18ebad9c7615eff545 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2010 00:43:03 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] NET: ipv6, remove unnecessary check

Stanse found a potential null dereference in snmp6_unregister_dev.
There is a check for idev being NULL, but it is dereferenced
earlier. But idev cannot be NULL when passed to
snmp6_unregister_dev, so remove the test.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru>
Cc: "Pekka Savola (ipv6)" <pekkas@netcore.fi>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
---
 net/ipv6/proc.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv6/proc.c b/net/ipv6/proc.c
index c9605c3ad91f..7b197b7132e0 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/proc.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/proc.c
@@ -259,7 +259,7 @@ int snmp6_unregister_dev(struct inet6_dev *idev)
 	struct net *net = dev_net(idev->dev);
 	if (!net->mib.proc_net_devsnmp6)
 		return -ENOENT;
-	if (!idev || !idev->stats.proc_dir_entry)
+	if (!idev->stats.proc_dir_entry)
 		return -EINVAL;
 	remove_proc_entry(idev->stats.proc_dir_entry->name,
 			  net->mib.proc_net_devsnmp6);
-- 
2.20.1