Improved attribute deletion process and fixed documentation referencing whitelsiting.

Signed-off-by: Robert Mullins <rmullins@secureworks.com>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/lib/chef/blacklist.rb b/lib/chef/blacklist.rb
index a60e0318cd..793944cc05 100644
--- a/lib/chef/blacklist.rb
+++ b/lib/chef/blacklist.rb
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ class Chef
     end
 
     # Walk the data according to the keys provided by the blacklisted item
-    # and add the data to the whitelisting result.
+    # to get a reference to the item that will be removed.
     def self.remove_data(data, item)
       parts = to_array(item)
 
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ class Chef
         return nil
       end
 
-      item_ref[parts[-1]] = nil
+      item_ref.del(parts[-1])
       data
     end