From ba7fe369875075c3b0def9887afb7a44fa88175e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2006 13:21:08 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] [PATCH] ext3: remove d_splice_alias NULL check from
 ext3_lookup

Remove redundant NULL check in ext3_lookup() as d_splice_alias() can take NULL
inode as input.

Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
---
 fs/ext3/namei.c | 5 +----
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/ext3/namei.c b/fs/ext3/namei.c
index af193a304ee5..8bd8ac077704 100644
--- a/fs/ext3/namei.c
+++ b/fs/ext3/namei.c
@@ -1005,10 +1005,7 @@ static struct dentry *ext3_lookup(struct inode * dir, struct dentry *dentry, str
 		if (!inode)
 			return ERR_PTR(-EACCES);
 	}
-	if (inode)
-		return d_splice_alias(inode, dentry);
-	d_add(dentry, inode);
-	return NULL;
+	return d_splice_alias(inode, dentry);
 }
 
 
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