It seems unnecessary to use a branch, in the event of error, to the same target label that would execute on success. Signed-off-by: Sergio Perez Gonzalez --- fs/ext4/namei.c | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/ext4/namei.c b/fs/ext4/namei.c index d83f91b62317..01f379f5fd04 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/namei.c +++ b/fs/ext4/namei.c @@ -2984,8 +2984,6 @@ int ext4_init_new_dir(handle_t *handle, struct inode *dir, return PTR_ERR(dir_block); de = (struct ext4_dir_entry_2 *)dir_block->b_data; err = ext4_init_dirblock(handle, inode, dir_block, dir->i_ino, NULL, 0); - if (err) - goto out; out: brelse(dir_block); return err; -- 2.43.0