brelse() tests whether its argument is NULL and then returns immediately. Thus the test around the call is not needed. This issue was detected by using the Coccinelle software. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/cfff3b81-fb5d-af26-7b5e-724266509045@web.de Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net> Acked-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>