All the callers already check the length when allocating the in-kernel xattrs buffers. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> --- fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_attr.c | 3 --- 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_attr.c b/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_attr.c index 4a120a6483ee..31cc42c46437 100644 --- a/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_attr.c +++ b/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_attr.c @@ -71,9 +71,6 @@ xfs_attr_args_init( args->flags = flags; args->name = name; args->namelen = strlen((const char *)name); - if (args->namelen >= MAXNAMELEN) - return -EFAULT; /* match IRIX behaviour */ - args->hashval = xfs_da_hashname(args->name, args->namelen); return 0; } -- 2.20.1