It's called once, during binderfs mount, right after allocating root dentry. Checking that it hadn't been already called is only obfuscating things. Looks like that bogosity had been copied from devpts... Signed-off-by: Al Viro --- drivers/android/binderfs.c | 6 ------ 1 file changed, 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/android/binderfs.c b/drivers/android/binderfs.c index a7b0a773d47f..8253e517ab6c 100644 --- a/drivers/android/binderfs.c +++ b/drivers/android/binderfs.c @@ -397,12 +397,6 @@ static int binderfs_binder_ctl_create(struct super_block *sb) if (!device) return -ENOMEM; - /* If we have already created a binder-control node, return. */ - if (info->control_dentry) { - ret = 0; - goto out; - } - ret = -ENOMEM; inode = new_inode(sb); if (!inode) -- 2.47.3