diff --git a/fs/ecryptfs/inode.c b/fs/ecryptfs/inode.c
index 847904aa63a9a..97d17eaeba073 100644
--- a/fs/ecryptfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ecryptfs/inode.c
@@ -395,8 +395,7 @@ static struct dentry *ecryptfs_lookup(struct inode *ecryptfs_dir_inode,
 
 	mount_crypt_stat = &ecryptfs_superblock_to_private(
 				ecryptfs_dentry->d_sb)->mount_crypt_stat;
-	if (mount_crypt_stat
-	    && (mount_crypt_stat->flags & ECRYPTFS_GLOBAL_ENCRYPT_FILENAMES)) {
+	if (mount_crypt_stat->flags & ECRYPTFS_GLOBAL_ENCRYPT_FILENAMES) {
 		rc = ecryptfs_encrypt_and_encode_filename(
 			&encrypted_and_encoded_name, &len,
 			mount_crypt_stat, name, len);