linux-kernel - [PATCH] UBIFS: Remove some dead code

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Date:   Tue,  1 Nov 2016 07:45:25 +0100
From:   Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@...adoo.fr>
To:     richard@....at, dedekind1@...il.com, adrian.hunter@...el.com
Cc:     linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
        Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@...adoo.fr>
Subject: [PATCH] UBIFS: Remove some dead code

'ubifs_fast_find_freeable()' can not return an error pointer, so this test
can be removed.

Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@...adoo.fr>
---
 fs/ubifs/gc.c | 4 ----
 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/ubifs/gc.c b/fs/ubifs/gc.c
index e845c64b6ce1..7b35e3d6cde7 100644
--- a/fs/ubifs/gc.c
+++ b/fs/ubifs/gc.c
@@ -846,10 +846,6 @@ int ubifs_gc_start_commit(struct ubifs_info *c)
 	 */
 	while (1) {
 		lp = ubifs_fast_find_freeable(c);
-		if (IS_ERR(lp)) {
-			err = PTR_ERR(lp);
-			goto out;
-		}
 		if (!lp)
 			break;
 		ubifs_assert(!(lp->flags & LPROPS_TAKEN));
-- 
2.9.3