[PATCH 09/15] fscrypt: drop empty name check from fname_decrypt()
Eric Biggers
ebiggers3 at gmail.com
Mon Apr 30 15:51:43 PDT 2018
From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers at google.com>
fname_decrypt() is validating that the encrypted filename is nonempty.
However, earlier a stronger precondition was already enforced: the
encrypted filename must be at least 16 (FS_CRYPTO_BLOCK_SIZE) bytes.
Drop the redundant check for an empty filename.
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers at google.com>
---
fs/crypto/fname.c | 3 ---
1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/crypto/fname.c b/fs/crypto/fname.c
index cc9590b5f371..c4eb3a235ae4 100644
--- a/fs/crypto/fname.c
+++ b/fs/crypto/fname.c
@@ -97,9 +97,6 @@ static int fname_decrypt(struct inode *inode,
int res = 0;
char iv[FS_CRYPTO_BLOCK_SIZE];
- if (iname->len <= 0)
- return -EIO;
-
/* Allocate request */
req = skcipher_request_alloc(tfm, GFP_NOFS);
if (!req)
--
2.17.0.441.gb46fe60e1d-goog
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