From dafe5f711fcb19a367d2b43efa83310a135ff3cd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Rich Trott <rtrott@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2017 23:45:03 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] assert: remove unneeded condition

---
 lib/assert.js | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/assert.js b/lib/assert.js
index 7f69ba0c60e476..baecb38d4f33d8 100644
--- a/lib/assert.js
+++ b/lib/assert.js
@@ -294,7 +294,8 @@ assert.notStrictEqual = function notStrictEqual(actual, expected, message) {
 };
 
 function expectedException(actual, expected) {
-  if (!actual || !expected) {
+  // actual is guaranteed to be an Error object, but we need to check expected.
+  if (!expected) {
     return false;
   }