All callers provide a valid name pointer, remove the redundant check. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Chandan Rajendra <chandanrlinux@xxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx> --- 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 bb391b96cd78..a968158b9bb1 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