namei: ignore ERR/NULL names in putname()
authorDmitry Kadashev <dkadashev@gmail.com>
Thu, 8 Jul 2021 06:34:37 +0000 (13:34 +0700)
committerJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Fri, 13 Aug 2021 14:10:29 +0000 (08:10 -0600)
commit86b975e52fedd374a059b1a9857d136b4fb1c95b
tree8e663f44a449ceb6c5dac5d45648ed5d833126bf
parent9158ef661aafacae48d8102a3dadcd11c492a0e9
namei: ignore ERR/NULL names in putname()

Supporting ERR/NULL names in putname() makes callers code cleaner, and
is what some other path walking functions already support for the same
reason.

This also removes a few existing IS_ERR checks before putname().

Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/io-uring/CAHk-=wgCac9hBsYzKMpHk0EbLgQaXR=OUAjHaBtaY+G8A9KhFg@mail.gmail.com/
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Kadashev <dkadashev@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210708063447.3556403-2-dkadashev@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
fs/namei.c