Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
 
        switch (cmd) {
        case F_SETFL:
-               if (!file->f_path.dentry || !file->f_path.dentry->d_inode) {
-                       err = -EINVAL;
-                       break;
-               }
-
                if ((file->f_flags & O_APPEND) && !(arg & O_APPEND)) {
                        err = file_has_perm(cred, file, FILE__WRITE);
                        break;
        case F_SETLK64:
        case F_SETLKW64:
 #endif
-               if (!file->f_path.dentry || !file->f_path.dentry->d_inode) {
-                       err = -EINVAL;
-                       break;
-               }
                err = file_has_perm(cred, file, FILE__LOCK);
                break;
        }