From: Colin Ian King <colin.i.king@xxxxxxxxx> Curretly in function generic_listxattr the for_each_xattr_handler loop checks err and will return out of the function if err is non-zero. It's impossible for err to be non-zero at the end of the function where err is checked again for a non-zero value. The final non-zero check is therefore redundant and can be removed. Also move the declaration of err into the loop. Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.i.king@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/xattr.c | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/xattr.c b/fs/xattr.c index deb336b821c9..02bee149ad96 100644 --- a/fs/xattr.c +++ b/fs/xattr.c @@ -1142,9 +1142,10 @@ generic_listxattr(struct dentry *dentry, char *buffer, size_t buffer_size) { const struct xattr_handler *handler, * const *handlers = dentry->d_sb->s_xattr; ssize_t remaining_size = buffer_size; - int err = 0; for_each_xattr_handler(handlers, handler) { + int err; + if (!handler->name || (handler->list && !handler->list(dentry))) continue; err = xattr_list_one(&buffer, &remaining_size, handler->name); @@ -1152,7 +1153,7 @@ generic_listxattr(struct dentry *dentry, char *buffer, size_t buffer_size) return err; } - return err ? err : buffer_size - remaining_size; + return buffer_size - remaining_size; } EXPORT_SYMBOL(generic_listxattr); -- 2.39.5