From 18b8a9c71bda617e5fc0fcbd0de877f32612bf4e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Aryan Rahar <aryanrahar1@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2025 12:05:36 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] consumer: return rebalance event via Poll() when
 appRebalanceEnable && no RebalanceCb (fixes #1457)

---
 kafka/consumer.go | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kafka/consumer.go b/kafka/consumer.go
index efc54d00e..51a4d2d03 100644
--- a/kafka/consumer.go
+++ b/kafka/consumer.go
@@ -1026,7 +1026,7 @@ func (c *Consumer) handleRebalanceEvent(channel chan Event, rkev *C.rd_kafka_eve
 
 	}
 
-	if channel != nil && c.appRebalanceEnable && c.rebalanceCb == nil {
+	if c.appRebalanceEnable && c.rebalanceCb == nil {
 		// Channel-based consumer with rebalancing enabled,
 		// return the rebalance event and rely on the application
 		// to call *Assign() / *Unassign().