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/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index 6571a5f5112e..0d35760fee00 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -3400,7 +3400,6 @@ out:
 
 struct dentry *vfs_tmpfile(struct dentry *dentry, umode_t mode, int open_flag)
 {
-        static const struct qstr name = QSTR_INIT("/", 1);
         struct dentry *child = NULL;
         struct inode *dir = dentry->d_inode;
         struct inode *inode;
@@ -3414,7 +3413,7 @@ struct dentry *vfs_tmpfile(struct dentry *dentry, umode_t mode, int open_flag)
         if (!dir->i_op->tmpfile)
                 goto out_err;
         error = -ENOMEM;
-        child = d_alloc(dentry, &name);
+        child = d_alloc(dentry, &slash_name);
         if (unlikely(!child))
                 goto out_err;
         error = dir->i_op->tmpfile(dir, child, mode);