Only simple_dname() checks it, and there we can simply do those calls and check for overflow (by looking of negative buflen) in the end. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/d_path.c | 20 +++++++++----------- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/d_path.c b/fs/d_path.c index 311d43287572..72b8087aaf9c 100644 --- a/fs/d_path.c +++ b/fs/d_path.c @@ -8,14 +8,13 @@ #include <linux/prefetch.h> #include "mount.h" -static int prepend(char **buffer, int *buflen, const char *str, int namelen) +static void prepend(char **buffer, int *buflen, const char *str, int namelen) { *buflen -= namelen; - if (*buflen < 0) - return -ENAMETOOLONG; - *buffer -= namelen; - memcpy(*buffer, str, namelen); - return 0; + if (likely(*buflen >= 0)) { + *buffer -= namelen; + memcpy(*buffer, str, namelen); + } } /** @@ -298,11 +297,10 @@ char *simple_dname(struct dentry *dentry, char *buffer, int buflen) { char *end = buffer + buflen; /* these dentries are never renamed, so d_lock is not needed */ - if (prepend(&end, &buflen, " (deleted)", 11) || - prepend(&end, &buflen, dentry->d_name.name, dentry->d_name.len) || - prepend(&end, &buflen, "/", 1)) - end = ERR_PTR(-ENAMETOOLONG); - return end; + prepend(&end, &buflen, " (deleted)", 11); + prepend(&end, &buflen, dentry->d_name.name, dentry->d_name.len); + prepend(&end, &buflen, "/", 1); + return buflen >= 0 ? end : ERR_PTR(-ENAMETOOLONG); } /* -- 2.11.0