From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: SF Markus Elfring Subject: [PATCH 1/1] fs-namei: Deletion of an unnecessary check before the function call "iput" Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2014 17:03:54 +0100 Message-ID: <5479EE6A.8080904@users.sourceforge.net> References: <5307CAA2.8060406@users.sourceforge.net> <530A086E.8010901@users.sourceforge.net> <530A72AA.3000601@users.sourceforge.net> <530B5FB6.6010207@users.sourceforge.net> <530C5E18.1020800@users.sourceforge.net> <530CD2C4.4050903@users.sourceforge.net> <530CF8FF.8080600@users.sourceforge.net> <530DD06F.4090703@users.sourceforge.net> <5317A59D.4@users.so urceforge.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: LKML , kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, Julia Lawall To: Alexander Viro , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Return-path: In-Reply-To: <5317A59D.4@users.sourceforge.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org From: Markus Elfring Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2014 17:00:21 +0100 The iput() function tests whether its argument is NULL and then returns immediately. Thus the test around the call is not needed. This issue was detected by using the Coccinelle software. Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring --- fs/namei.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c index ca81416..ce69074 100644 --- a/fs/namei.c +++ b/fs/namei.c @@ -3759,8 +3759,7 @@ exit2: dput(dentry); } mutex_unlock(&nd.path.dentry->d_inode->i_mutex); - if (inode) - iput(inode); /* truncate the inode here */ + iput(inode); /* truncate the inode here */ inode = NULL; if (delegated_inode) { error = break_deleg_wait(&delegated_inode); -- 2.1.3