From 2946e3b0b34c2a22fd20b97058944aeb67d4361f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ceki Gulcu <ceki@qos.ch>
Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2023 19:12:59 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] minor refactoring

Signed-off-by: Ceki Gulcu <ceki@qos.ch>
---
 .../src/main/java/ch/qos/logback/core/util/Loader.java    | 8 ++------
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/logback-core/src/main/java/ch/qos/logback/core/util/Loader.java b/logback-core/src/main/java/ch/qos/logback/core/util/Loader.java
index 4959e6de6c..32c793f5f7 100644
--- a/logback-core/src/main/java/ch/qos/logback/core/util/Loader.java
+++ b/logback-core/src/main/java/ch/qos/logback/core/util/Loader.java
@@ -165,18 +165,14 @@ public ClassLoader run() {
 
     /**
      * Return the class loader which loaded the class passed as argument. Return the
-     * system class loader if appropriate.
+     * system class loader if the class loader of 'clazz' argument is null.
      *
      * @param clazz
      * @return
      */
     public static ClassLoader getClassLoaderOfClass(final Class<?> clazz) {
         ClassLoader cl = clazz.getClassLoader();
-        if (cl == null) {
-            return ClassLoader.getSystemClassLoader();
-        } else {
-            return cl;
-        }
+        return systemClassloaderIfNull(cl);
     }
 
     /**