linux-kernel - [PATCH] afs: cell: Remove unnecessary code in afs_lookup

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Date:   Fri, 17 Nov 2017 16:40:32 -0600
From:   "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <garsilva@...eddedor.com>
To:     David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Cc:     linux-afs@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <garsilva@...eddedor.com>
Subject: [PATCH] afs: cell: Remove unnecessary code in afs_lookup_cell

Due to recent changes this piece of code is no longer needed.

Addresses-Coverity-ID: 1462033
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/4923.1510957307@warthog.procyon.org.uk
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <garsilva@...eddedor.com>
---
 fs/afs/cell.c | 7 +------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/afs/cell.c b/fs/afs/cell.c
index 1858c91..9bb921d 100644
--- a/fs/afs/cell.c
+++ b/fs/afs/cell.c
@@ -207,13 +207,8 @@ struct afs_cell *afs_lookup_cell(struct afs_net *net,
 		rcu_read_lock();
 		cell = afs_lookup_cell_rcu(net, name, namesz);
 		rcu_read_unlock();
-		if (!IS_ERR(cell)) {
-			if (excl) {
-				afs_put_cell(net, cell);
-				return ERR_PTR(-EEXIST);
-			}
+		if (!IS_ERR(cell))
 			goto wait_for_cell;
-		}
 	}
 
 	/* Assume we're probably going to create a cell and preallocate and
-- 
2.7.4