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 <agruenba@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
diff --git a/fs/xattr.c b/fs/xattr.c
index c243905..1f72c92 100644
--- a/fs/xattr.c
+++ b/fs/xattr.c
@@ -675,9 +675,6 @@
{
const struct xattr_handler *handler;
- if (!*name)
- return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
-
for_each_xattr_handler(handlers, handler) {
const char *n;