HDFS-7517. Remove redundant non-null checks in FSNamesystem#getBlockLocations. Contributed by Haohui Mai.

hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt

@@ -322,6 +322,9 @@ Release 2.7.0 - UNRELEASED
     HDFS-7497. Inconsistent report of decommissioning DataNodes between
     dfsadmin and NameNode webui. (Yongjun Zhang via wang)
 
+    HDFS-7517. Remove redundant non-null checks in FSNamesystem#
+    getBlockLocations. (wheat9)
+
 Release 2.6.1 - UNRELEASED
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES

hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/namenode/FSNamesystem.java

@@ -1772,10 +1772,6 @@ public class FSNamesystem implements Namesystem, FSNamesystemMBean,
 
     logAuditEvent(true, "open", src);
 
-    if (res == null) {
-      return null;
-    }
-
     if (res.updateAccessTime()) {
       writeLock();
       final long now = now();