From e010a5ef95b8b6a12b74b548578f7dcf93564347 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Steve French Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2011 22:04:32 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] [CIFS] Redundant null check after dereference Reviewed-by: Shirish Pargaonkar Signed-off-by: Steve French --- fs/cifs/dir.c | 5 ----- 1 file changed, 5 deletions(-) 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);