It returns only 0 or -ENAMETOOLONG and both callers only check if the result is negative. Might as well return true on success and false on failure... Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/d_path.c | 12 ++++++------ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/d_path.c b/fs/d_path.c index 327cc3744554..83db83446afd 100644 --- a/fs/d_path.c +++ b/fs/d_path.c @@ -34,15 +34,15 @@ static void prepend(char **buffer, int *buflen, const char *str, int namelen) * * Load acquire is needed to make sure that we see that terminating NUL. */ -static int prepend_name(char **buffer, int *buflen, const struct qstr *name) +static bool prepend_name(char **buffer, int *buflen, const struct qstr *name) { const char *dname = smp_load_acquire(&name->name); /* ^^^ */ u32 dlen = READ_ONCE(name->len); char *p; *buflen -= dlen + 1; - if (*buflen < 0) - return -ENAMETOOLONG; + if (unlikely(*buflen < 0)) + return false; p = *buffer -= dlen + 1; *p++ = '/'; while (dlen--) { @@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ static int prepend_name(char **buffer, int *buflen, const struct qstr *name) break; *p++ = c; } - return 0; + return true; } /** @@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ static int prepend_path(const struct path *path, } parent = dentry->d_parent; prefetch(parent); - if (unlikely(prepend_name(&bptr, &blen, &dentry->d_name) < 0)) + if (!prepend_name(&bptr, &blen, &dentry->d_name)) break; dentry = parent; @@ -305,7 +305,7 @@ static char *__dentry_path(const struct dentry *d, char *p, int buflen) const struct dentry *parent = dentry->d_parent; prefetch(parent); - if (unlikely(prepend_name(&end, &len, &dentry->d_name) < 0)) + if (!prepend_name(&end, &len, &dentry->d_name)) break; dentry = parent; -- 2.11.0