attr: drop misguided defensive coding

diff --git a/attr.c b/attr.c
index 924b4408d5d94cbbf4c44db1ad919e60e178cb60..ad7eb9cd31719a6ef1b3229c68dbf2441f23c9f9 100644 (file)
--- a/attr.c
+++ b/attr.c
@@ -568,7 +568,7 @@ static void prepare_attr_stack(const char *path, int dirlen)
         * Pop the ones from directories that are not the prefix of
         * the path we are checking.
         */
-       while (attr_stack && attr_stack->origin) {
+       while (attr_stack->origin) {
                int namelen = strlen(attr_stack->origin);
 
                elem = attr_stack;