From 363d9784bf9868c5fc6e09a4c7cd5d681cef2695 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Liu <liudaniel@qq.com>
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2024 16:31:26 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] engines/engine_v2: fix staticcheck warning S1009: should omit
 nil check

---
 consensus/XDPoS/engines/engine_v2/verifyHeader.go | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/consensus/XDPoS/engines/engine_v2/verifyHeader.go b/consensus/XDPoS/engines/engine_v2/verifyHeader.go
index 7ba672bccb..ca9aa20cef 100644
--- a/consensus/XDPoS/engines/engine_v2/verifyHeader.go
+++ b/consensus/XDPoS/engines/engine_v2/verifyHeader.go
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ func (x *XDPoS_v2) verifyHeader(chain consensus.ChainReader, header *types.Heade
 		if !bytes.Equal(header.Nonce[:], utils.NonceDropVote) {
 			return utils.ErrInvalidCheckpointVote
 		}
-		if header.Validators == nil || len(header.Validators) == 0 {
+		if len(header.Validators) == 0 {
 			return utils.ErrEmptyEpochSwitchValidators
 		}
 		if len(header.Validators)%common.AddressLength != 0 {