Source kernel commit: 79f2280b9bfd54aa37b3fa4a80b0037bd29b4f0e 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> Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> --- db/attrset.c | 8 ++++++++ libxfs/xfs_attr.c | 4 ---- 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/db/attrset.c b/db/attrset.c index 4360e5f7..d4b812e6 100644 --- a/db/attrset.c +++ b/db/attrset.c @@ -127,6 +127,10 @@ attr_set_f( } name = argv[optind]; + if (!name) { + dbprintf(_("invalid name\n")); + return 0; + } if (valuelen) { value = (char *)memalign(getpagesize(), valuelen); @@ -214,6 +218,10 @@ attr_remove_f( } name = argv[optind]; + if (!name) { + dbprintf(_("invalid name\n")); + return 0; + } if (libxfs_iget(mp, NULL, iocur_top->ino, 0, &ip, &xfs_default_ifork_ops)) { diff --git a/libxfs/xfs_attr.c b/libxfs/xfs_attr.c index 248f9e83..ee2225a3 100644 --- a/libxfs/xfs_attr.c +++ b/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; -- 2.26.2