VFS: Provide empty name qstr

Provide an empty name (ie. "") qstr for general use.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/fs/gfs2/dir.c b/fs/gfs2/dir.c
index 79113219be5f..a5dfff6a033e 100644
--- a/fs/gfs2/dir.c
+++ b/fs/gfs2/dir.c
@@ -872,7 +872,6 @@ static struct gfs2_leaf *new_leaf(struct inode *inode, struct buffer_head **pbh,
         struct buffer_head *bh;
         struct gfs2_leaf *leaf;
         struct gfs2_dirent *dent;
-        struct qstr name = { .name = "" };
         struct timespec tv = current_time(inode);
 
         error = gfs2_alloc_blocks(ip, &bn, &n, 0, NULL);
@@ -896,7 +895,7 @@ static struct gfs2_leaf *new_leaf(struct inode *inode, struct buffer_head **pbh,
         leaf->lf_sec = cpu_to_be64(tv.tv_sec);
         memset(leaf->lf_reserved2, 0, sizeof(leaf->lf_reserved2));
         dent = (struct gfs2_dirent *)(leaf+1);
-        gfs2_qstr2dirent(&name, bh->b_size - sizeof(struct gfs2_leaf), dent);
+        gfs2_qstr2dirent(&empty_name, bh->b_size - sizeof(struct gfs2_leaf), dent);
         *pbh = bh;
         return leaf;
 }