xattr: Remove unnecessary NULL attribute name check

When NULL is passed to one of the xattr system calls as the attribute name, copying that name from user space already fails with -EFAULT; xattr_resolve_name is never called with a NULL attribute name. Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <[email protected]>
ambv · Oct 7, 2016 · 5d18cbf · 5d18cbf
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diff --git a/fs/xattr.c b/fs/xattr.c
@@ -675,9 +675,6 @@ xattr_resolve_name(const struct xattr_handler **handlers, const char **name)
 {
 	const struct xattr_handler *handler;
 
-	if (!*name)
-		return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
-
 	for_each_xattr_handler(handlers, handler) {
 		const char *n;