From fce9b9be89cece975675142a3953bfb5299d195d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dan Carpenter Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2013 12:35:42 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] rtnetlink: remove an unneeded test We know that "dev" is a valid pointer at this point, so we can remove the test and clean up a little. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter Reviewed-by: "Eric W. Biederman" Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- net/core/rtnetlink.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/core/rtnetlink.c b/net/core/rtnetlink.c index 0b2972c59b97..242084edb658 100644 --- a/net/core/rtnetlink.c +++ b/net/core/rtnetlink.c @@ -1867,10 +1867,10 @@ replay: else err = register_netdevice(dev); - if (err < 0 && !IS_ERR(dev)) + if (err < 0) { free_netdev(dev); - if (err < 0) goto out; + } err = rtnl_configure_link(dev, ifm); if (err < 0) -- 2.20.1