[dm-devel] [PATCH] dm: remove pointless comparison

[Joe Thornber]

On Mon, Jan 06, 2014 at 10:53:28PM -0500, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
> Remove pointless comparison in dm_get_from_kobject. The comparison is
> always true and the compiler optimizes it out anyway.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka at redhat.com>
> 
> ---
>  drivers/md/dm.c |    2 --
>  1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
> 
> Index: linux-3.13-rc7/drivers/md/dm.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-3.13-rc7.orig/drivers/md/dm.c	2014-01-07 01:28:27.000000000 +0100
> +++ linux-3.13-rc7/drivers/md/dm.c	2014-01-07 01:28:39.000000000 +0100
> @@ -2922,8 +2922,6 @@ struct mapped_device *dm_get_from_kobjec
>  	struct mapped_device *md;
>  
>  	md = container_of(kobj, struct mapped_device, kobj);
> -	if (&md->kobj != kobj)
> -		return NULL;

What were they trying to check?  The compiler?