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authorDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>2017-07-04 17:25:22 +0100
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2017-07-06 03:27:09 -0400
commitcdf01226b26e98c79c13b335fbe0cbbbe850cf44 (patch)
tree979318b9a3b69b03b39f6e66d3ffa75b82565ddc /fs/namei.c
parentee416bcdba9975065de571e09de1f7ebfde2156a (diff)
downloadlinux-cdf01226b26e98c79c13b335fbe0cbbbe850cf44.tar.gz
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/namei.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/namei.c3
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);