sock_close() couldn't have been called with NULL inode since at least 2.1.early

... if not since 0.99 or so.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/net/socket.c b/net/socket.c
index 88f759adf3af..9663df63e3d1 100644
--- a/net/socket.c
+++ b/net/socket.c
@@ -1173,15 +1173,6 @@ static int sock_mmap(struct file *file, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
 
 static int sock_close(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp)
 {
-        /*
-         *      It was possible the inode is NULL we were
-         *      closing an unfinished socket.
-         */
-
-        if (!inode) {
-                printk(KERN_DEBUG "sock_close: NULL inode\n");
-                return 0;
-        }
         sock_release(SOCKET_I(inode));
         return 0;
 }