From: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2011 22:04:32 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: [CIFS] Redundant null check after dereference
X-Git-Url: https://git.karo-electronics.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e010a5ef95b8b6a12b74b548578f7dcf93564347;p=linux-beck.git

[CIFS] Redundant null check after dereference

Reviewed-by: Shirish Pargaonkar <shirishp@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
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diff --git a/fs/cifs/dir.c b/fs/cifs/dir.c
index fa8c21d913bc..8e9d37d44e9d 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/dir.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/dir.c
@@ -57,11 +57,6 @@ build_path_from_dentry(struct dentry *direntry)
 	struct cifs_tcon *tcon = cifs_sb_master_tcon(cifs_sb);
 	unsigned seq;
 
-	if (direntry == NULL)
-		return NULL;  /* not much we can do if dentry is freed and
-		we need to reopen the file after it was closed implicitly
-		when the server crashed */
-
 	dirsep = CIFS_DIR_SEP(cifs_sb);
 	if (tcon->Flags & SMB_SHARE_IS_IN_DFS)
 		dfsplen = strnlen(tcon->treeName, MAX_TREE_SIZE + 1);