cppcheck reports fs/ext4/page-io.c:516:51: style: Condition 'nr_to_submit' is always true [knownConditionTrueFalse] if (fscrypt_inode_uses_fs_layer_crypto(inode) && nr_to_submit) { ^ This earlier check to bail, makes this check unncessary /* Nothing to submit? Just unlock the page... */ if (!nr_to_submit) return 0; Signed-off-by: Tom Rix <trix@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ext4/page-io.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/ext4/page-io.c b/fs/ext4/page-io.c index 8703fd732abb..b847131bc958 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/page-io.c +++ b/fs/ext4/page-io.c @@ -513,7 +513,7 @@ int ext4_bio_write_page(struct ext4_io_submit *io, * (e.g. holes) to be unnecessarily encrypted, but this is rare and * can't happen in the common case of blocksize == PAGE_SIZE. */ - if (fscrypt_inode_uses_fs_layer_crypto(inode) && nr_to_submit) { + if (fscrypt_inode_uses_fs_layer_crypto(inode)) { gfp_t gfp_flags = GFP_NOFS; unsigned int enc_bytes = round_up(len, i_blocksize(inode)); -- 2.27.0