From: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@gmx.de>

Since all callers dereference dir, we dont need this check.  Coverity id
#337.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@gmx.de>
Cc: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Cc: <reiserfs-dev@namesys.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
---

 fs/reiserfs/inode.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff -puN fs/reiserfs/inode.c~remove-unnecessary-check-in-fs-reiserfs-inodec fs/reiserfs/inode.c
--- a/fs/reiserfs/inode.c~remove-unnecessary-check-in-fs-reiserfs-inodec
+++ a/fs/reiserfs/inode.c
@@ -1780,7 +1780,7 @@ int reiserfs_new_inode(struct reiserfs_t
 		err = -EDQUOT;
 		goto out_end_trans;
 	}
-	if (!dir || !dir->i_nlink) {
+	if (!dir->i_nlink) {
 		err = -EPERM;
 		goto out_bad_inode;
 	}
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