That bogosity goes back to the initial merge of ext3. Once upon a time
ext2 used to have a similar check; that got taken out during the switch
to page cache (June 2001). ext3 got merged into mainline 5 months later,
still using buffer cache for directories; removal of the pointless check
in ext2 should've been done as a separate patch, but it hadn't been,
so that thing got missed...
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <[email protected]>
---
fs/ext4/namei.c | 2 --
1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/ext4/namei.c b/fs/ext4/namei.c
index d252935f9c8a..fa8b8dd841b5 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/namei.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/namei.c
@@ -2388,8 +2388,6 @@ static int ext4_add_entry(handle_t *handle, struct dentry *dentry,
sb = dir->i_sb;
blocksize = sb->s_blocksize;
- if (!dentry->d_name.len)
- return -EINVAL;
if (fscrypt_is_nokey_name(dentry))
return -ENOKEY;
--
2.39.2