xattr: Fail with -EINVAL for NULL attribute names

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Commit 98e9cb57 improved the xattr name checks in xattr_resolve_name but
didn't update the NULL attribute name check appropriately, so NULL
attribute names lead to NULL pointer dereferences.  Turn that into
-EINVAL results instead.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>
  fs/xattr.c | 2 +-
  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

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Andreas Gruenbacher 2016-05-09 13:28:49 +02:00 • committed by Al Viro

parent e0d46f5c6e

commit aaf431b4f9

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