From d7df00072e64f972e0f7eb4fea78eed2da9c0e59 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Yaowei Bai <bywxiaobai@163.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2015 14:58:39 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] fs/ext2/namei.c: remove unnecessary new_valid_dev() check

new_valid_dev() always returns 1, so the !new_valid_dev() check is not
needed.  Remove it.

Signed-off-by: Yaowei Bai <bywxiaobai@163.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---
 fs/ext2/namei.c | 3 ---
 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/ext2/namei.c b/fs/ext2/namei.c
index b4841e3066a5..3267a80dbbe2 100644
--- a/fs/ext2/namei.c
+++ b/fs/ext2/namei.c
@@ -143,9 +143,6 @@ static int ext2_mknod (struct inode * dir, struct dentry *dentry, umode_t mode,
 	struct inode * inode;
 	int err;
 
-	if (!new_valid_dev(rdev))
-		return -EINVAL;
-
 	err = dquot_initialize(dir);
 	if (err)
 		return err;
-- 
2.20.1