From cb59861f03a626196a23fdef5e20ddbb8cca6466 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:05:20 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] vfs: remove extraneous NULL d_inode check from do_filp_open

We can't get to this point unless it's a valid pointer.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
---
 fs/namei.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index d2783c8..dad4b80 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -1764,7 +1764,7 @@ do_last:
 
 	path_to_nameidata(&path, &nd);
 	error = -EISDIR;
-	if (path.dentry->d_inode && S_ISDIR(path.dentry->d_inode->i_mode))
+	if (S_ISDIR(path.dentry->d_inode->i_mode))
 		goto exit;
 ok:
 	/*
-- 
2.7.4