cfg80211: remove scan ies NULL check

There's no way scan BSS IEs can be NULL as even
if the allocation fails the frame is discarded.
Remove some code checking for this and document
that it is always non-NULL.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/sta_ioctl.c b/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/sta_ioctl.c
index ee85b41a4dfd..8866a2b69c94 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/sta_ioctl.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/sta_ioctl.c
@@ -162,11 +162,6 @@ int mwifiex_fill_new_bss_desc(struct mwifiex_private *priv,
 
         rcu_read_lock();
         ies = rcu_dereference(bss->ies);
-        if (WARN_ON(!ies)) {
-                /* should never happen */
-                rcu_read_unlock();
-                return -EINVAL;
-        }
         beacon_ie = kmemdup(ies->data, ies->len, GFP_ATOMIC);
         beacon_ie_len = ies->len;
         rcu_read_unlock();