There is no need to verify that its an error, as we are anyway going to match the error value to -ENOENT. Drop the redundant check. Reported-by: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill(a)shutemov.name&gt; Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar(a)linaro.org&gt; --- drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/obdclass/lu_object.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/obdclass/lu_object.c b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/obdclass/lu_object.c index 6cd3af8c6237..8e472327c880 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/obdclass/lu_object.c +++ b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/obdclass/lu_object.c @@ -674,7 +674,7 @@ static struct lu_object *lu_object_find_try(const struct lu_env *env, cfs_hash_bd_lock(hs, &bd, 1); shadow = htable_lookup(s, &bd, f, waiter, &version); - if (likely(IS_ERR(shadow) && PTR_ERR(shadow) == -ENOENT)) { + if (likely(PTR_ERR(shadow) == -ENOENT)) { struct lu_site_bkt_data *bkt; bkt = cfs_hash_bd_extra_get(hs, &bd); -- 2.4.0