The replay variable is set in the only caller of nfsd4_encode_replay. The assertion is unnecessary and the patch removes this check. Signed-off-by: Aditya Pakki <pakki001@xxxxxxx> --- fs/nfsd/nfs4xdr.c | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/nfsd/nfs4xdr.c b/fs/nfsd/nfs4xdr.c index d2dc4c0e22e8..fb2433676376 100644 --- a/fs/nfsd/nfs4xdr.c +++ b/fs/nfsd/nfs4xdr.c @@ -4500,8 +4500,6 @@ nfsd4_encode_replay(struct xdr_stream *xdr, struct nfsd4_op *op) __be32 *p; struct nfs4_replay *rp = op->replay; - BUG_ON(!rp); - p = xdr_reserve_space(xdr, 8 + rp->rp_buflen); if (!p) { WARN_ON_ONCE(1); -- 2.20.1