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authorAndreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>2016-09-29 17:48:30 +0200
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2016-10-06 22:17:38 -0400
commit5d18cbf16cfb0ad65368fe2ead19237305f4b822 (patch)
treec46b8e5375ccc764e78e054f066f68b413026468
parent08895a8b6b06ed2323cd97a36ee40a116b3db8ed (diff)
downloadlinux-5d18cbf16cfb0ad65368fe2ead19237305f4b822.tar.bz2
xattr: Remove unnecessary NULL attribute name check
When NULL is passed to one of the xattr system calls as the attribute name, copying that name from user space already fails with -EFAULT; xattr_resolve_name is never called with a NULL attribute name. Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
-rw-r--r--fs/xattr.c3
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/fs/xattr.c b/fs/xattr.c
index c243905835ab..1f72c9217398 100644
--- a/fs/xattr.c
+++ b/fs/xattr.c
@@ -675,9 +675,6 @@ xattr_resolve_name(const struct xattr_handler **handlers, const char **name)
{
const struct xattr_handler *handler;
- if (!*name)
- return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
-
for_each_xattr_handler(handlers, handler) {
const char *n;