diff --git a/lib/escape.c b/lib/escape.c
index aa7db2c5b..d7f8a8f54 100644
--- a/lib/escape.c
+++ b/lib/escape.c
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
  *                            | (__| |_| |  _ <| |___
  *                             \___|\___/|_| \_\_____|
  *
- * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2013, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
+ * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2014, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
  *
  * This software is licensed as described in the file COPYING, which
  * you should have received as part of this distribution. The terms
@@ -196,9 +196,8 @@ CURLcode Curl_urldecode(struct SessionHandle *data,
     /* store output size */
     *olen = strindex;
 
-  if(ostring)
-    /* store output string */
-    *ostring = ns;
+  /* store output string */
+  *ostring = ns;
 
   return CURLE_OK;
 }