From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from zeniv.linux.org.uk (zeniv.linux.org.uk [62.89.141.173]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E3F33329377; Thu, 8 Jan 2026 07:36:52 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=62.89.141.173 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1767857815; cv=none; b=Vw4m8+KXRXABy2lhBsL8JaPxmnnjFVsW35y8iKzPSK6/QJG8oB4kuz/xqousgf+QgHXNz9jxsxfA8YjmF/4AiXr+3QIpsGBnJDx7TOWSFTQYH0YpZfTAucZt/41hpjyBlLGKh/a0tgVnKk8dm85l2KshFfhkmddKSRS5gixJF74= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1767857815; c=relaxed/simple; bh=Ht40MPYaxaAZbJgv0XEOHa5Itq6XzQoGLnJtmfQSU6Q=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:Message-ID:In-Reply-To:References: MIME-Version; b=E3ndx2GhvX8yHaldugN3jg43z69AfuEU34KNnsV1rvhJwMhFPlUCXp3+qpC5n3sRkGs3tAdwHTz1BPsZAuV6IQRksEZUNjjf+PLIfurm1+AKIGSYbR6lIJSwi4zcbrbF5gQUEd1nVL23FtwyTg1U5DRHMsrV5XYfDgKrQ00d3Ig= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=zeniv.linux.org.uk; spf=none smtp.mailfrom=ftp.linux.org.uk; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=linux.org.uk header.i=@linux.org.uk header.b=RRIgk/ga; arc=none smtp.client-ip=62.89.141.173 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=zeniv.linux.org.uk Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=none smtp.mailfrom=ftp.linux.org.uk Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=linux.org.uk header.i=@linux.org.uk header.b="RRIgk/ga" DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=linux.org.uk; s=zeniv-20220401; h=Sender:Content-Transfer-Encoding: MIME-Version:References:In-Reply-To:Message-ID:Date:Subject:Cc:To:From: Reply-To:Content-Type:Content-ID:Content-Description; bh=ZDR9dpmV8LzFo0YU1af8ScCVNOIEjj2c+wxQMju+zIw=; b=RRIgk/gaBWheK51rZM0EICwpaV QJJTlo+rCNbX41biPaV/iE9fvyZVTyr2RjfBbwfFmv2LWTC//2Qf4yJKFfzAR0QSrCbriXk5zsvTP 5yAYWImCkO4HKGGpdM/0blp59lvUpiYNUeyCjI/dP0IRQ9Y0aqmBdSyOIm/iE8gkPGZ9YWsHieXRq xCGyDnYS8pDCyuo8MJnsUU9RPaNGvvQ/8KPg16B843Ve9hU7CmkpJXNhPwMSdYg9lWSm++XWpAsE8 kSqKGR1Rc0PdzqpZ+Pq6clplm97k/LUU2pxGsiEgizJZpKJmGbGbqQZDI6clOd/zhDEwcpETAQa4N 6xdIJRmg==; Received: from viro by zeniv.linux.org.uk with local (Exim 4.99 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1vdkat-00000001mkw-3L7J; Thu, 08 Jan 2026 07:38:07 +0000 From: Al Viro To: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org, brauner@kernel.org, jack@suse.cz, mjguzik@gmail.com, paul@paul-moore.com, axboe@kernel.dk, audit@vger.kernel.org, io-uring@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH v4 21/59] file_getattr(): filename_lookup() accepts ERR_PTR() as filename Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2026 07:37:25 +0000 Message-ID: <20260108073803.425343-22-viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.52.0 In-Reply-To: <20260108073803.425343-1-viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> References: <20260108073803.425343-1-viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: io-uring@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: Al Viro no need to check it in the caller Signed-off-by: Al Viro --- fs/file_attr.c | 3 --- 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/file_attr.c b/fs/file_attr.c index 13cdb31a3e94..ddd4939af7b6 100644 --- a/fs/file_attr.c +++ b/fs/file_attr.c @@ -396,9 +396,6 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(file_getattr, int, dfd, const char __user *, filename, return -EINVAL; name = getname_maybe_null(filename, at_flags); - if (IS_ERR(name)) - return PTR_ERR(name); - if (!name && dfd >= 0) { CLASS(fd, f)(dfd); if (fd_empty(f)) -- 2.47.3