[PATCH v4 21/59] file_getattr(): filename_lookup() accepts ERR_PTR() as filename

Al Viro <[email protected]>
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.audit,org.kernel.vger.io-uring,org.kernel.vger.linux-fsdevel,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
no need to check it in the caller

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <[email protected]>
---
 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
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