diff -r fd40b0b3d849 -r ffbb784a8873 src/java.base/unix/native/libnio/ch/SocketChannelImpl.c
--- a/src/java.base/unix/native/libnio/ch/SocketChannelImpl.c	Tue Feb 06 23:49:10 2018 +0530
+++ b/src/java.base/unix/native/libnio/ch/SocketChannelImpl.c	Tue Feb 06 16:04:46 2018 +0000
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright (c) 2000, 2010, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
+ * Copyright (c) 2000, 2018, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
  * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER.
  *
  * This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
@@ -47,8 +47,7 @@
 
 JNIEXPORT jint JNICALL
 Java_sun_nio_ch_SocketChannelImpl_checkConnect(JNIEnv *env, jobject this,
-                                               jobject fdo, jboolean block,
-                                               jboolean ready)
+                                               jobject fdo, jboolean block)
 {
     int error = 0;
     socklen_t n = sizeof(int);
@@ -56,19 +55,16 @@
     int result = 0;
     struct pollfd poller;
 
-    poller.revents = 1;
-    if (!ready) {
-        poller.fd = fd;
-        poller.events = POLLOUT;
-        poller.revents = 0;
-        result = poll(&poller, 1, block ? -1 : 0);
-        if (result < 0) {
-            JNU_ThrowIOExceptionWithLastError(env, "Poll failed");
-            return IOS_THROWN;
-        }
-        if (!block && (result == 0))
-            return IOS_UNAVAILABLE;
+    poller.fd = fd;
+    poller.events = POLLOUT;
+    poller.revents = 0;
+    result = poll(&poller, 1, block ? -1 : 0);
+    if (result < 0) {
+        JNU_ThrowIOExceptionWithLastError(env, "Poll failed");
+        return IOS_THROWN;
     }
+    if (!block && (result == 0))
+       return IOS_UNAVAILABLE;
 
     if (poller.revents) {
         errno = 0;