From 56996bd38f5f18fa14ed2c47b9cb2699ecea7d88 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: carltimmer <carl.timmer.1@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2024 16:16:17 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] simplify

---
 java/org/jlab/coda/jevio/EventParser.java | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/java/org/jlab/coda/jevio/EventParser.java b/java/org/jlab/coda/jevio/EventParser.java
index d219dc1d2..489be00cb 100644
--- a/java/org/jlab/coda/jevio/EventParser.java
+++ b/java/org/jlab/coda/jevio/EventParser.java
@@ -500,7 +500,7 @@ static TagSegmentHeader createTagSegmentHeader(byte bytes[], int offset, ByteOrd
         int word = ByteDataTransformer.toInt(bytes, byteOrder, offset);
 
         int len = word & 0xffff;
-        if ((len < 0) || (4*len + 4 + offset > bytes.length)) {
+        if (4*len + 4 + offset > bytes.length) {
             throw new EvioException("bad length in tagseg header (0x" + Integer.toHexString(len) + ")");
         }
         header.setLength(len);