From e2ccd822037ac14cdedd971fde3a315922c0d135 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Volker Lendecke <vl@samba.org>
Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2022 11:51:28 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] smbd: Remove a pointless NULL check from readlink_talloc()

We should never call this without the place to put the target in.

Signed-off-by: Volker Lendecke <vl@samba.org>
Reviewed-by: Jeremy Allison <jra@samba.org>
---
 source3/smbd/files.c | 4 ----
 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/source3/smbd/files.c b/source3/smbd/files.c
index 8aa09680d54..87684b1984d 100644
--- a/source3/smbd/files.c
+++ b/source3/smbd/files.c
@@ -693,10 +693,6 @@ NTSTATUS readlink_talloc(
 	char *substitute;
 	NTSTATUS status;
 
-	if (_substitute == NULL) {
-		return NT_STATUS_OK;
-	}
-
 	if (smb_relname == NULL) {
 		/*
 		 * We have a Linux O_PATH handle in dirfsp and want to
-- 
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