From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2020 20:08:34 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: xfs: remove the name == NULL check from xfs_attr_args_init
X-Git-Tag: v5.7.0-rc0~51
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=9c0d4ea9ce569bc9fae3ff451ae02d9e7aed275d;p=thirdparty%2Fxfsprogs-dev.git

xfs: remove the name == NULL check from xfs_attr_args_init

Source kernel commit: 79f2280b9bfd54aa37b3fa4a80b0037bd29b4f0e

All callers provide a valid name pointer, remove the redundant check.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Chandan Rajendra <chandanrlinux@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
---

diff --git a/libxfs/xfs_attr.c b/libxfs/xfs_attr.c
index 248f9e837..ee2225a30 100644
--- a/libxfs/xfs_attr.c
+++ b/libxfs/xfs_attr.c
@@ -65,10 +65,6 @@ xfs_attr_args_init(
 	size_t			namelen,
 	int			flags)
 {
-
-	if (!name)
-		return -EINVAL;
-
 	memset(args, 0, sizeof(*args));
 	args->geo = dp->i_mount->m_attr_geo;
 	args->whichfork = XFS_ATTR_FORK;