As new_valid_dev always returns 1, so !new_valid_dev check is not needed, remove it. Signed-off-by: Yaowei Bai <bywxiaobai@xxxxxxx> --- fs/ext4/namei.c | 3 --- 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/ext4/namei.c b/fs/ext4/namei.c index 9f61e76..41b6cc8 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/namei.c +++ b/fs/ext4/namei.c @@ -2469,9 +2469,6 @@ static int ext4_mknod(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry, struct inode *inode; int err, credits, retries = 0; - if (!new_valid_dev(rdev)) - return -EINVAL; - err = dquot_initialize(dir); if (err) return err; -- 1.9.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html