`readPreference == ReadPreference::PrimaryOnly` on line 291 will never evaluate to false because there is exactly the same parent `if` check. Which means the `else` block is unreachable.

https://github.com/mongodb/mongo/blob/0cceba6f04b95f3652de84c2f1f4ab2a644dba6e/src/mongo/db/repl/topology_coordinator.cpp#L291 

First, the code was introduced with this PR https://github.com/mongodb/mongo/commit/7296a460f826c8a618147e09606c5f1935c482a4 The outer check has two ORed conditions: 

    if (readPreference == ReadPreference::PrimaryOnly ||
        (chainingPreference == ChainingPreference::kUseConfiguration &&
         !_rsConfig.isChainingAllowed()))

Which means the inner check can evaluate false.

Later, with this change https://github.com/mongodb/mongo/commit/a7ff5838b5a4bcb4881a08c5dafce671c3b54940 the condition in the outer `if` statement is changed and the inner `if` can never be false anymore.

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