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>
diff --git a/net/socket.c b/net/socket.c
index 88f759a..9663df6 100644
--- a/net/socket.c
+++ b/net/socket.c
@@ -1173,15 +1173,6 @@
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;
}