statx: correct error handling of NULL pathname
The change in commit 1e2f82d1 ("statx: Kill fd-with-NULL-path support in favour of AT_EMPTY_PATH") to error on a NULL pathname to statx() is inconsistent. It results in the error EINVAL for a NULL pathname. Other system calls with similar APIs (fchownat(), fstatat(), linkat()), return EFAULT. The solution is simply to remove the EINVAL check. As I already pointed out in [1], user_path_at*() and filename_lookup() will handle the NULL pathname as per the other APIs, to correctly produce the error EFAULT. [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/4/26/561 Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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