We dereference "transaction" at the start of the function so the NULL check isn't needed here. It's not harmful, but it silences a static checker warning when we remove this. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@xxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/fs/jbd2/transaction.c b/fs/jbd2/transaction.c index a242f6f..8d7013c 100644 --- a/fs/jbd2/transaction.c +++ b/fs/jbd2/transaction.c @@ -1143,8 +1143,7 @@ int jbd2_journal_dirty_metadata(handle_t *handle, struct buffer_head *bh) jh->b_next_transaction, jh->b_next_transaction ? jh->b_next_transaction->t_tid : 0, - transaction, - transaction ? transaction->t_tid : 0); + transaction, transaction->t_tid); BUG_ON(1); } /* And this case is illegal: we can't reuse another -- 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