From: Pekka Enberg Remove redundant NULL check in isofs_lookup() as d_splice_alias() can take NULL inode as input. Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- fs/isofs/namei.c | 5 +---- 1 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-) diff -puN fs/isofs/namei.c~isofs-remove-d_splice_alias-null-check-from-isofs_lookup fs/isofs/namei.c --- 25/fs/isofs/namei.c~isofs-remove-d_splice_alias-null-check-from-isofs_lookup Thu Jan 12 17:08:42 2006 +++ 25-akpm/fs/isofs/namei.c Thu Jan 12 17:08:42 2006 @@ -185,8 +185,5 @@ struct dentry *isofs_lookup(struct inode } } unlock_kernel(); - if (inode) - return d_splice_alias(inode, dentry); - d_add(dentry, inode); - return NULL; + return d_splice_alias(inode, dentry); } _