From 79f2280b9bfd54aa37b3fa4a80b0037bd29b4f0e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2020 17:30:32 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] xfs: remove the name == NULL check from xfs_attr_args_init

All callers provide a valid name pointer, remove the redundant check.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Chandan Rajendra <chandanrlinux@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
---
 fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_attr.c | 4 ----
 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_attr.c b/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_attr.c
index bb391b96cd78..a968158b9bb1 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_attr.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_attr.c
@@ -65,10 +65,6 @@ xfs_attr_args_init(
 	size_t			namelen,
 	int			flags)
 {
-
-	if (!name)
-		return -EINVAL;
-
 	memset(args, 0, sizeof(*args));
 	args->geo = dp->i_mount->m_attr_geo;
 	args->whichfork = XFS_ATTR_FORK;