From: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
To: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 12/22] ext4_add_entry(): ->d_name.len is never 0
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2023 05:24:54 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20231220052454.GK1674809@ZenIV> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20231220051348.GY1674809@ZenIV>
That bogosity goes back to the initial merge of ext3. Once upon a time
ext2 used to have a similar check; that got taken out during the switch
to page cache (June 2001). ext3 got merged into mainline 5 months later,
still using buffer cache for directories; removal of the pointless check
in ext2 should've been done as a separate patch, but it hadn't been,
so that thing got missed...
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
---
fs/ext4/namei.c | 2 --
1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/ext4/namei.c b/fs/ext4/namei.c
index d252935f9c8a..fa8b8dd841b5 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/namei.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/namei.c
@@ -2388,8 +2388,6 @@ static int ext4_add_entry(handle_t *handle, struct dentry *dentry,
sb = dir->i_sb;
blocksize = sb->s_blocksize;
- if (!dentry->d_name.len)
- return -EINVAL;
if (fscrypt_is_nokey_name(dentry))
return -ENOKEY;
--
2.39.2
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