netfilter: ipv6: unnecessary to check whether ip6_route_output() returns NULL

ip6_route_output() never returns NULL, so it is not appropriate to
check if the return value is NULL.

Signed-off-by: Haishuang Yan <yanhaishuang@cmss.chinamobile.com>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/net/ipv6/netfilter/nf_reject_ipv6.c b/net/ipv6/netfilter/nf_reject_ipv6.c
index 4709f657b7b6..a5400223fd74 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/netfilter/nf_reject_ipv6.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/netfilter/nf_reject_ipv6.c
@@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ void nf_send_reset6(struct net *net, struct sk_buff *oldskb, int hook)
         fl6.fl6_dport = otcph->source;
         security_skb_classify_flow(oldskb, flowi6_to_flowi(&fl6));
         dst = ip6_route_output(net, NULL, &fl6);
-        if (dst == NULL || dst->error) {
+        if (dst->error) {
                 dst_release(dst);
                 return;
         }