This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ksmbd: remove unused is_char_allowed function to the 6.1-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: ksmbd-remove-unused-is_char_allowed-function.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.1 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit b618eadd3d5203cd53b8b49cb0b03b4d62be8e6c Author: Tom Rix <trix@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sun Dec 31 16:12:31 2023 +0900 ksmbd: remove unused is_char_allowed function [ Upstream commit 2824861773eb512b37547516d81ef78108032cb2 ] clang with W=1 reports fs/ksmbd/unicode.c:122:19: error: unused function 'is_char_allowed' [-Werror,-Wunused-function] static inline int is_char_allowed(char *ch) ^ This function is not used so remove it. Signed-off-by: Tom Rix <trix@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Steve French <stfrench@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/fs/smb/server/unicode.c b/fs/smb/server/unicode.c index a0db699ddafda..9ae676906ed39 100644 --- a/fs/smb/server/unicode.c +++ b/fs/smb/server/unicode.c @@ -113,24 +113,6 @@ cifs_mapchar(char *target, const __u16 src_char, const struct nls_table *cp, goto out; } -/* - * is_char_allowed() - check for valid character - * @ch: input character to be checked - * - * Return: 1 if char is allowed, otherwise 0 - */ -static inline int is_char_allowed(char *ch) -{ - /* check for control chars, wildcards etc. */ - if (!(*ch & 0x80) && - (*ch <= 0x1f || - *ch == '?' || *ch == '"' || *ch == '<' || - *ch == '>' || *ch == '|')) - return 0; - - return 1; -} - /* * smb_from_utf16() - convert utf16le string to local charset * @to: destination buffer