From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>

We dereference bitmap both one line above and one line below this check
rendering this check quite useless.

Spotted by the Coverity checker.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Cc: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
---

 drivers/md/bitmap.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff -puN drivers/md/bitmap.c~md-bitmapcbitmap_mask_state-fix-inconsequent-null-checking drivers/md/bitmap.c
--- devel/drivers/md/bitmap.c~md-bitmapcbitmap_mask_state-fix-inconsequent-null-checking	2006-03-11 00:05:16.000000000 -0800
+++ devel-akpm/drivers/md/bitmap.c	2006-03-11 00:05:16.000000000 -0800
@@ -556,7 +556,7 @@ static void bitmap_mask_state(struct bit
 	unsigned long flags;
 
 	spin_lock_irqsave(&bitmap->lock, flags);
-	if (!bitmap || !bitmap->sb_page) { /* can't set the state */
+	if (!bitmap->sb_page) { /* can't set the state */
 		spin_unlock_irqrestore(&bitmap->lock, flags);
 		return;
 	}
_