When budget is non-zero, skb_unref() has already handled the NULL checking.
When budget is zero, the dev_consume_skb_any() has handled NULL checking in __dev_kfree_skb_irq(), or dev_kfree_skb() which also ultimately call skb_unref(). So remove the unnecessary checking in napi_consume_skb(). Signed-off-by: Yunsheng Lin <linyunsh...@huawei.com> --- net/core/skbuff.c | 3 --- 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/core/skbuff.c b/net/core/skbuff.c index bfd7483..e077447 100644 --- a/net/core/skbuff.c +++ b/net/core/skbuff.c @@ -895,9 +895,6 @@ void __kfree_skb_defer(struct sk_buff *skb) void napi_consume_skb(struct sk_buff *skb, int budget) { - if (unlikely(!skb)) - return; - /* Zero budget indicate non-NAPI context called us, like netpoll */ if (unlikely(!budget)) { dev_consume_skb_any(skb); -- 2.8.1