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[12/22] ext4_add_entry(): ->d_name.len is never 0

Message ID	20231220052454.GK1674809@ZenIV (mailing list archive)
State	New, archived
Headers	show 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 EBFB0FBE1; Wed, 20 Dec 2023 05:24:56 +0000 (UTC) Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2023 05:24:54 +0000 From: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> To: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH 12/22] ext4_add_entry(): ->d_name.len is never 0 Message-ID: <20231220052454.GK1674809@ZenIV> References: <20231220051348.GY1674809@ZenIV> Precedence: bulk MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20231220051348.GY1674809@ZenIV> Sender: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
Series	PATCH 01/22] hostfs: use d_splice_alias() calling conventions to simplify failure exits \| expand PATCH 01/22] hostfs: use d_splice_alias() calling conventions to simplify failure exits [02/22] /proc/sys: use d_splice_alias() calling conventions to simplify failure exits [03/22] zonefs: d_splice_alias() will do the right thing on ERR_PTR() inode [04/22] udf: d_splice_alias() will do the right thing on ERR_PTR() inode [05/22] affs: d_obtain_alias(ERR_PTR(...)) will do the right thing [06/22] befs: d_obtain_alias(ERR_PTR(...)) will do the right thing [07/22] ceph: d_obtain_{alias,root}(ERR_PTR(...)) will do the right thing [08/22] gfs2: d_obtain_alias(ERR_PTR(...)) will do the right thing [09/22] kernfs: d_obtain_alias(NULL) will do the right thing... [11/22] udf: d_obtain_alias(ERR_PTR(...)) will do the right thing... [12/22] ext4_add_entry(): ->d_name.len is never 0 [13/22] bfs_add_entry(): get rid of pointless ->d_name.len checks [14/22] __ocfs2_add_entry(), ocfs2_prepare_dir_for_insert(): namelen checks [15/22] reiserfs_add_entry(): get rid of pointless namelen checks [16/22] udf_fiiter_add_entry(): check for zero ->d_name.len is bogus... [17/22] get rid of passing callbacks to ceph __dentry_leases_walk() [18/22] nfsd: kill stale comment about simple_fill_super() requirements [19/22] ocfs2_find_match(): there's no such thing as NULL or negative ->d_parent [20/22] gfs2: use is_subdir() [21/22] orangefs: saner arguments passing in readdir guts [22/22] apparmorfs: don't duplicate kfree_link()

Commit Message

Al Viro Dec. 20, 2023, 5:24 a.m. UTC

That bogosity goes back to the initial merge of ext3.  Once upon a time
ext2 used to have a similar check; that got taken out during the switch
to page cache (June 2001).  ext3 got merged into mainline 5 months later,
still using buffer cache for directories; removal of the pointless check
in ext2 should've been done as a separate patch, but it hadn't been,
so that thing got missed...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
---
 fs/ext4/namei.c | 2 --
 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

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diff --git a/fs/ext4/namei.c b/fs/ext4/namei.c
index d252935f9c8a..fa8b8dd841b5 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/namei.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/namei.c
@@ -2388,8 +2388,6 @@  static int ext4_add_entry(handle_t *handle, struct dentry *dentry,
 
 	sb = dir->i_sb;
 	blocksize = sb->s_blocksize;
-	if (!dentry->d_name.len)
-		return -EINVAL;
 
 	if (fscrypt_is_nokey_name(dentry))
 		return -ENOKEY;