linux-ext4 - [PATCH] ext4: remove useless if check

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Message-ID: <20250721200902.1071-1-antonio@mandelbit.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2025 22:09:02 +0200
From: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@...delbit.com>
To: linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@...delbit.com>,
	"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>,
	Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@...ger.ca>
Subject: [PATCH] ext4: remove useless if check

This if branch is only jumping to 'out' which
is defined just after the branch itself.
Hence this is if-check is a no-op and can be removed.

Address-Coverity-ID: 1647981 ("Incorrect expression  (IDENTICAL_BRANCHES)")
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@...delbit.com>
---
 fs/ext4/namei.c | 2 --
 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/ext4/namei.c b/fs/ext4/namei.c
index d83f91b62317..01f379f5fd04 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/namei.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/namei.c
@@ -2984,8 +2984,6 @@ int ext4_init_new_dir(handle_t *handle, struct inode *dir,
 		return PTR_ERR(dir_block);
 	de = (struct ext4_dir_entry_2 *)dir_block->b_data;
 	err = ext4_init_dirblock(handle, inode, dir_block, dir->i_ino, NULL, 0);
-	if (err)
-		goto out;
 out:
 	brelse(dir_block);
 	return err;
-- 
2.49.1