* [PATCH] fs: remove unused vfs_empty_path()
@ 2026-09-18 16:51 Sang-Heon Jeon
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From: Sang-Heon Jeon @ 2026-09-18 16:51 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Alexander Viro, Christian Brauner; +Cc: Jan Kara, linux-fsdevel, linux-kernel
Since commit e896474fe485 ("getname_maybe_null() - the third variant of
pathname copy-in"), vfs_empty_path() has no callers.
So remove it.
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Sang-Heon Jeon <ekffu200098@gmail.com>
---
include/linux/fs.h | 17 -----------------
1 file changed, 17 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index 05d05bb9c951..ef8eb5af06c5 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -3653,23 +3653,6 @@ extern int vfs_fadvise(struct file *file, loff_t offset, loff_t len,
extern int generic_fadvise(struct file *file, loff_t offset, loff_t len,
int advice);
-static inline bool vfs_empty_path(int dfd, const char __user *path)
-{
- char c;
-
- if (dfd < 0)
- return false;
-
- /* We now allow NULL to be used for empty path. */
- if (!path)
- return true;
-
- if (unlikely(get_user(c, path)))
- return false;
-
- return !c;
-}
-
int generic_atomic_write_valid(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *iter);
static inline bool extensible_ioctl_valid(unsigned int cmd_a,
--
2.43.0
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