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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- 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
