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 ED9692FE063; Wed, 14 Jan 2026 04:31:53 +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=1768365118; cv=none; b=s+XTMEQl21OpKROPn5rK9W0M6ldOn+w07GbkI2pG2DZnHMHHnOCg2Odmm8MPh0bWM3DUvzKB1BQy1mnpL14i5yb3DJkJHdFOxcwCuX8JXngr3JC8QA6g7QPD42QdtSsZt5mD0kMtW/MHW9+a7k/IRTQDANiB4wtyEJxozvKJ8qI= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1768365118; c=relaxed/simple; bh=Ht40MPYaxaAZbJgv0XEOHa5Itq6XzQoGLnJtmfQSU6Q=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:Message-ID:In-Reply-To:References: MIME-Version; b=hw+vIE3Gc60DYeW3w903s3RcYkP7p6U48iCmyKV/Mv9DoVxKPYr33QLsahkEBTuARItw2WmOIjlkKt3RdJJkPVdfMz28Dt6xO2KRSxKXx//Gb/xff8PixkG0gB2uAh0+dB5apuPQ6kqnEYb7m+0ki8e+wvqkVNnGkrdlBfsP9IQ= 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=nU2UF7NI; 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="nU2UF7NI" 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=nU2UF7NISLYkke7m23cEvIv4Eg JwGsrBcmpV67pYJj8bjoPjwQ8gpKyTcLaafb8va8dOSMD4AuOTOOkSeHzoDbQz1Grezsr3OF3db2C DNgvpNlLwzkOqOTZ8zieqULG/Lg5cf5TiX4TNzZIm4E774gNGxZryLzKQuZHGYQqF1KWT2l0d7TKu rcEpCVayOMZTb5iG+O11iFbMIIv+jWoTEcUc5fG1qpF9DdjLmhUKNYSKblIV99rrRdDDQPtlvS0ku gXJ7JthscHRPCzkysS2m4iiLCZdwcMwhfAZyBm3vEzlMPw6EqldTIY6e4mMOujwcucGUFtydCZ0ci rS0ktoyQ==; Received: from viro by zeniv.linux.org.uk with local (Exim 4.99 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1vfsZF-0000000GInx-2yfF; Wed, 14 Jan 2026 04:33:13 +0000 From: Al Viro To: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Linus Torvalds , Christian Brauner , Jan Kara , Mateusz Guzik , Paul Moore , Jens Axboe , audit@vger.kernel.org, io-uring@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH v5 25/68] file_getattr(): filename_lookup() accepts ERR_PTR() as filename Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2026 04:32:27 +0000 Message-ID: <20260114043310.3885463-26-viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.52.0 In-Reply-To: <20260114043310.3885463-1-viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> References: <20260114043310.3885463-1-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