Orangefs: xattr.c cleanup

1. It is nonsense to test for negative size_t, suggested by
   David Binderman <dcb314@hotmail.com>

2. By the time Orangefs gets called, the vfs has ensured that
   name != NULL, and that buffer and size are sane.

Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 16 deletions

diff --git a/fs/orangefs/xattr.c b/fs/orangefs/xattr.c
index ef5da7538cd5..90a8ae77d641 100644
--- a/fs/orangefs/xattr.c
+++ b/fs/orangefs/xattr.c
@@ -73,10 +73,6 @@ ssize_t orangefs_inode_getxattr(struct inode *inode, const char *prefix,
                      "%s: prefix %s name %s, buffer_size %zd\n",
                      __func__, prefix, name, size);
 
-        if (name == NULL || (size > 0 && buffer == NULL)) {
-                gossip_err("orangefs_inode_getxattr: bogus NULL pointers\n");
-                return -EINVAL;
-        }
         if ((strlen(name) + strlen(prefix)) >= ORANGEFS_MAX_XATTR_NAMELEN) {
                 gossip_err("Invalid key length (%d)\n",
                            (int)(strlen(name) + strlen(prefix)));
@@ -239,8 +235,7 @@ int orangefs_inode_setxattr(struct inode *inode, const char *prefix,
                      "%s: prefix %s, name %s, buffer_size %zd\n",
                      __func__, prefix, name, size);
 
-        if (size < 0 ||
-            size >= ORANGEFS_MAX_XATTR_VALUELEN ||
+        if (size >= ORANGEFS_MAX_XATTR_VALUELEN ||
             flags < 0) {
                 gossip_err("orangefs_inode_setxattr: bogus values of size(%d), flags(%d)\n",
                            (int)size,
@@ -248,12 +243,6 @@ int orangefs_inode_setxattr(struct inode *inode, const char *prefix,
                 return -EINVAL;
         }
 
-        if (name == NULL ||
-            (size > 0 && value == NULL)) {
-                gossip_err("orangefs_inode_setxattr: bogus NULL pointers!\n");
-                return -EINVAL;
-        }
-
         internal_flag = convert_to_internal_xattr_flags(flags);
 
         if (prefix) {
@@ -353,10 +342,6 @@ ssize_t orangefs_listxattr(struct dentry *dentry, char *buffer, size_t size)
                 gossip_err("%s: bogus NULL pointers\n", __func__);
                 return -EINVAL;
         }
-        if (size < 0) {
-                gossip_err("Invalid size (%d)\n", (int)size);
-                return -EINVAL;
-        }
 
         down_read(&orangefs_inode->xattr_sem);
         new_op = op_alloc(ORANGEFS_VFS_OP_LISTXATTR);