From: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru>

proc symlinks always have valid ->data containing destination of symlink.  No
need to check it on removal -- proc_symlink() already done it.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 fs/proc/generic.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff -puN fs/proc/generic.c~proc-remove-useless-check-on-symlink-removal fs/proc/generic.c
--- a/fs/proc/generic.c~proc-remove-useless-check-on-symlink-removal
+++ a/fs/proc/generic.c
@@ -669,7 +669,7 @@ void free_proc_entry(struct proc_dir_ent
 
 	release_inode_number(ino);
 
-	if (S_ISLNK(de->mode) && de->data)
+	if (S_ISLNK(de->mode))
 		kfree(de->data);
 	kfree(de);
 }
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