linux-kernel - [patch] ntfs: remove an unneeded NULL check

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Date:	Thu, 19 Jul 2012 11:02:28 +0300
From:	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
To:	Anton Altaparmakov <anton@...era.com>
Cc:	linux-ntfs-dev@...ts.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [patch] ntfs: remove an unneeded NULL check

The "ctx" variable can never be NULL here and also we dereference it
on the previous line.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>

diff --git a/fs/ntfs/file.c b/fs/ntfs/file.c
index 7389d2d..4db19f7 100644
--- a/fs/ntfs/file.c
+++ b/fs/ntfs/file.c
@@ -309,8 +309,7 @@ do_non_resident_extend:
 done:
 	flush_dcache_mft_record_page(ctx->ntfs_ino);
 	mark_mft_record_dirty(ctx->ntfs_ino);
-	if (ctx)
-		ntfs_attr_put_search_ctx(ctx);
+	ntfs_attr_put_search_ctx(ctx);
 	if (m)
 		unmap_mft_record(base_ni);
 	ntfs_debug("Done, initialized_size 0x%llx, i_size 0x%llx.",
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