All callers provide a valid name pointer, remove the redundant check. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> --- fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_attr.c | 4 ---- 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_attr.c b/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_attr.c index 04431ab9f5f5..d5064213577c 100644 --- a/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_attr.c +++ b/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_attr.c @@ -65,10 +65,6 @@ xfs_attr_args_init( size_t namelen, int flags) { - - if (!name) - return -EINVAL; - memset(args, 0, sizeof(*args)); args->geo = dp->i_mount->m_attr_geo; args->whichfork = XFS_ATTR_FORK; -- 2.24.1