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Message-Id: <1257868979-31012-1-git-send-email-jlayton@redhat.com>
Date:	Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:02:59 -0500
From:	Jeff Layton <jlayton@...hat.com>
To:	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] vfs: remove extraneous NULL d_inode check from do_filp_open

We can't get to this point unless it's a valid pointer.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@...hat.com>
---
 fs/namei.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index d11f404..3374917 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -1805,7 +1805,7 @@ do_last:
 
 	path_to_nameidata(&path, &nd);
 	error = -EISDIR;
-	if (path.dentry->d_inode && S_ISDIR(path.dentry->d_inode->i_mode))
+	if (S_ISDIR(path.dentry->d_inode->i_mode))
 		goto exit;
 ok:
 	/*
-- 
1.5.5.6

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