Commit 5d18cbf1 authored Sep 29, 2016 by Andreas Gruenbacher Committed by Al Viro Oct 06, 2016

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>

parent 08895a8b

fs/xattr.c

+0 −3

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		@@ -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;