[PATCH v5 01/17] xattr: Remove unnecessary NULL attribute name check
From: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>
Date: 2016-09-28 14:58:16
Also in:
linux-fsdevel
Subsystem:
filesystems (vfs and infrastructure), the rest · Maintainers:
Alexander Viro, Christian Brauner, Linus Torvalds
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> --- fs/xattr.c | 3 --- 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/xattr.c b/fs/xattr.c
index c243905..1f72c92 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;
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