namei: ignore ERR/NULL names in putname()
authorDmitry Kadashev <dkadashev@gmail.com>
Thu, 8 Jul 2021 06:34:37 +0000 (13:34 +0700)
committerJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Mon, 23 Aug 2021 19:41:26 +0000 (13:41 -0600)
commit91ef658fb8b82837f94ea0d45d14b5b2d2541e70
treeb1ced52aaffc27fb1b6ff4677c5d896ea4847ae5
parent26578cda3db983b17cabe4e577af26306beb9987
namei: ignore ERR/NULL names in putname()

Supporting ERR/NULL names in putname() makes callers code cleaner, and
is what some other path walking functions already support for the same
reason.

This also removes a few existing IS_ERR checks before putname().

Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/io-uring/CAHk-=wgCac9hBsYzKMpHk0EbLgQaXR=OUAjHaBtaY+G8A9KhFg@mail.gmail.com/
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Kadashev <dkadashev@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210708063447.3556403-2-dkadashev@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
fs/namei.c