As reported by Dan Carpenter, this test for acred->cred being set is inconsistent with the dereference of the pointer a few lines earlier. An 'auth_cred' *always* has ->cred set - every place that creates one initializes this field, often as the first thing done. So remove this test. Reported-by: Dan Carpenter Signed-off-by: NeilBrown --- net/sunrpc/auth_unix.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/sunrpc/auth_unix.c b/net/sunrpc/auth_unix.c index 387f6b3ffbea..770e338a9b11 100644 --- a/net/sunrpc/auth_unix.c +++ b/net/sunrpc/auth_unix.c @@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ unx_match(struct auth_cred *acred, struct rpc_cred *cred, int flags) if (!uid_eq(cred->cr_cred->fsuid, acred->cred->fsuid) || !gid_eq(cred->cr_cred->fsgid, acred->cred->fsgid)) return 0; - if (acred->cred && acred->cred->group_info != NULL) + if (acred->cred->group_info != NULL) groups = acred->cred->group_info->ngroups; if (groups > UNX_NGROUPS) groups = UNX_NGROUPS; -- 2.14.0.rc0.dirty