Notice that in this particular case unlikely() is already being called inside BUG_ON macro.
This issue was detected with the help of Coccinelle. Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <garsi...@embeddedor.com> --- drivers/net/ethernet/faraday/ftmac100.c | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/faraday/ftmac100.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/faraday/ftmac100.c index 66928a9..aecc765 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/faraday/ftmac100.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/faraday/ftmac100.c @@ -402,6 +402,7 @@ static bool ftmac100_rx_packet(struct ftmac100 *priv, int *processed) struct page *page; dma_addr_t map; int length; + bool ret; rxdes = ftmac100_rx_locate_first_segment(priv); if (!rxdes) @@ -416,8 +417,8 @@ static bool ftmac100_rx_packet(struct ftmac100 *priv, int *processed) * It is impossible to get multi-segment packets * because we always provide big enough receive buffers. */ - if (unlikely(!ftmac100_rxdes_last_segment(rxdes))) - BUG(); + ret = ftmac100_rxdes_last_segment(rxdes); + BUG_ON(!ret); /* start processing */ skb = netdev_alloc_skb_ip_align(netdev, 128); -- 2.7.4