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| author | Dmitry Kadashev <dkadashev@gmail.com> | 2021-07-08 13:34:37 +0700 |
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| committer | Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> | 2021-08-23 13:41:26 -0600 |
| commit | 91ef658fb8b82837f94ea0d45d14b5b2d2541e70 (patch) | |
| tree | b1ced52aaffc27fb1b6ff4677c5d896ea4847ae5 /fs/namei.c | |
| parent | 26578cda3db983b17cabe4e577af26306beb9987 (diff) | |
| download | linux-next-91ef658fb8b82837f94ea0d45d14b5b2d2541e70.tar.gz | |
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/namei.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/namei.c | 9 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c index bf6d8a738c59..dc36bda5c2e7 100644 --- a/fs/namei.c +++ b/fs/namei.c @@ -247,6 +247,9 @@ getname_kernel(const char * filename) void putname(struct filename *name) { + if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(name)) + return; + BUG_ON(name->refcnt <= 0); if (--name->refcnt > 0) @@ -4728,11 +4731,9 @@ exit1: goto retry; } put_both: - if (!IS_ERR(from)) - putname(from); + putname(from); put_new: - if (!IS_ERR(to)) - putname(to); + putname(to); return error; } |