The "file" argument for fsync is never null so we can remove this check. What drew my attention here is that 7ea8085910e: "drop unused dentry argument to ->fsync" introduced an unconditional dereference at the start of the function and that generated a smatch warning. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@xxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/fs/btrfs/file.c b/fs/btrfs/file.c index 787b50a..e252d23 100644 --- a/fs/btrfs/file.c +++ b/fs/btrfs/file.c @@ -1140,7 +1140,7 @@ int btrfs_sync_file(struct file *file, int datasync) /* * ok we haven't committed the transaction yet, lets do a commit */ - if (file && file->private_data) + if (file->private_data) btrfs_ioctl_trans_end(file); trans = btrfs_start_transaction(root, 0); -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html