drop bogus check in file_open_root()



For one thing, LOOKUP_DIRECTORY will be dealt with in do_last().
For another, name can be an empty string, but not NULL - no callers
pass that and it would oops immediately if they would.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

parent 3f7036a0

fs/open.c

+0 −3

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -988,9 +988,6 @@ struct file file_open_root(struct dentry dentry, struct vfsmount *mnt,
		return ERR_PTR(err);
		if (flags & O_CREAT)
		return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
		if (!filename && (flags & O_DIRECTORY))
		if (!dentry->d_inode->i_op->lookup)
		return ERR_PTR(-ENOTDIR);
		return do_file_open_root(dentry, mnt, filename, &op);
		}
		EXPORT_SYMBOL(file_open_root);