netlink: Deletion of an unnecessary check before the function call "__module_get"

The __module_get() function tests whether its argument is NULL and then
returns immediately. Thus the test around the call is not needed.

This issue was detected by using the Coccinelle software.

Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
index d479b32d5826..e1aad6eeac14 100644
--- a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
+++ b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
@@ -142,8 +142,7 @@ int netlink_add_tap(struct netlink_tap *nt)
         list_add_rcu(&nt->list, &netlink_tap_all);
         spin_unlock(&netlink_tap_lock);
 
-        if (nt->module)
-                __module_get(nt->module);
+        __module_get(nt->module);
 
         return 0;
 }