From 18a4cf268f1a5d4a4508054b614c429a9606fc2a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Riya Mehta <riyamehta@google.com>
Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2024 16:41:27 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] remove unecessary check.

---
 .../google/api/gax/grpc/InstantiatingGrpcChannelProvider.java | 4 ----
 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/gax-java/gax-grpc/src/main/java/com/google/api/gax/grpc/InstantiatingGrpcChannelProvider.java b/gax-java/gax-grpc/src/main/java/com/google/api/gax/grpc/InstantiatingGrpcChannelProvider.java
index a91f829551..10ead5cb23 100644
--- a/gax-java/gax-grpc/src/main/java/com/google/api/gax/grpc/InstantiatingGrpcChannelProvider.java
+++ b/gax-java/gax-grpc/src/main/java/com/google/api/gax/grpc/InstantiatingGrpcChannelProvider.java
@@ -496,10 +496,6 @@ ChannelCredentials createS2ASecuredChannelCredentials() {
               + ignore.getMessage());
       return createPlaintextToS2AChannelCredentials(plaintextAddress);
     }
-    if (mtlsToS2AChannelCredentials == null) {
-      // Fallback to plaintext-to-S2A connection.
-      return createPlaintextToS2AChannelCredentials(plaintextAddress);
-    }
     return S2AChannelCredentials.newBuilder(mtlsAddress, mtlsToS2AChannelCredentials).build();
   }