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 c243905835abd25b52eb8daf061b5f11b3a5708e..1f72c92173980851ebc023b83191ec53dc6710fd 100644 (file)
--- 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;