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Commit 91ef658f authored by Dmitry Kadashev's avatar Dmitry Kadashev Committed by Jens Axboe
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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: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/io-uring/CAHk-=wgCac9hBsYzKMpHk0EbLgQaXR=OUAjHaBtaY+G8A9KhFg@mail.gmail.com/


Acked-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDmitry Kadashev <dkadashev@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210708063447.3556403-2-dkadashev@gmail.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
parent 26578cda
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