linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] ext4: Remove never taken branch from ext4_ext_shift_path

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Message-ID: <20141125212441.GE28449@thunk.org>
Date:	Tue, 25 Nov 2014 16:24:41 -0500
From:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Cc:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4: Remove never taken branch from
 ext4_ext_shift_path_extents()

On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 11:15:04AM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> path[depth].p_hdr can never be NULL for a path passed to us (and even if
> it could, EXT_LAST_EXTENT() would make something != NULL from it). So
> just remove the branch.
> 
> Coverity-id: 1196498
> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>

Applied, thanks.

						- Ted
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