chore: omit unnecessary nil check (S1009)

galargh · web-flow · commit 91d2afba07ac · 2025-08-20T18:59:16.000+02:00
diff --git a/merkletree/tree.go b/merkletree/tree.go
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ func newBareTree(leafs uint64) *TreeData {
 // Then decoding the tree, bottom-up, starting with the leafs as the amount of nodes in one level defines the amount of nodes in its parent level
 // NOTE that correctness of the tree is NOT validated as part of this method
 func DeserializeTree(tree []byte) (*TreeData, error) {
-	if tree == nil || len(tree) < BytesInInt {
+	if len(tree) < BytesInInt {
 		return nil, xerrors.New("no tree encoded")
 	}
 	lvlSize := binary.LittleEndian.Uint64(tree[:BytesInInt])

Original file line number	Diff line number	Diff line change
`@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ func newBareTree(leafs uint64) *TreeData {`
`77`	`77`	`// Then decoding the tree, bottom-up, starting with the leafs as the amount of nodes in one level defines the amount of nodes in its parent level`
`78`	`78`	`// NOTE that correctness of the tree is NOT validated as part of this method`
`79`	`79`	`func DeserializeTree(tree []byte) (*TreeData, error) {`
`80`		`- if tree == nil \|\| len(tree) < BytesInInt {`
	`80`	`+ if len(tree) < BytesInInt {`
`81`	`81`	`return nil, xerrors.New("no tree encoded")`
`82`	`82`	`}`
`83`	`83`	`lvlSize := binary.LittleEndian.Uint64(tree[:BytesInInt])`