From d8548232ea2858d1d130f3ac835185159d367caa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Date: Mon, 17 May 2021 22:05:23 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] d_path: don't bother with return value of prepend()

Only simple_dname() checks it, and there we can simply do those
calls and check for overflow (by looking of negative buflen)
in the end.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
---
 fs/d_path.c | 20 +++++++++-----------
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/d_path.c b/fs/d_path.c
index 311d432875727..72b8087aaf9c3 100644
--- a/fs/d_path.c
+++ b/fs/d_path.c
@@ -8,14 +8,13 @@
 #include <linux/prefetch.h>
 #include "mount.h"
 
-static int prepend(char **buffer, int *buflen, const char *str, int namelen)
+static void prepend(char **buffer, int *buflen, const char *str, int namelen)
 {
 	*buflen -= namelen;
-	if (*buflen < 0)
-		return -ENAMETOOLONG;
-	*buffer -= namelen;
-	memcpy(*buffer, str, namelen);
-	return 0;
+	if (likely(*buflen >= 0)) {
+		*buffer -= namelen;
+		memcpy(*buffer, str, namelen);
+	}
 }
 
 /**
@@ -298,11 +297,10 @@ char *simple_dname(struct dentry *dentry, char *buffer, int buflen)
 {
 	char *end = buffer + buflen;
 	/* these dentries are never renamed, so d_lock is not needed */
-	if (prepend(&end, &buflen, " (deleted)", 11) ||
-	    prepend(&end, &buflen, dentry->d_name.name, dentry->d_name.len) ||
-	    prepend(&end, &buflen, "/", 1))  
-		end = ERR_PTR(-ENAMETOOLONG);
-	return end;
+	prepend(&end, &buflen, " (deleted)", 11);
+	prepend(&end, &buflen, dentry->d_name.name, dentry->d_name.len);
+	prepend(&end, &buflen, "/", 1);
+	return buflen >= 0 ? end : ERR_PTR(-ENAMETOOLONG);
 }
 
 /*
-- 
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