[PATCH v7 03/49] audit: no need to walk list in audit_inode if name is NULL

Christoph Hellwig hch at infradead.org
Tue Oct 2 15:56:43 UTC 2012


On Mon, Oct 01, 2012 at 08:16:12PM -0400, Jeff Layton wrote:
> If name is NULL then the condition in the loop will never be true. Also,
> with this change, we can eliminate the check for n->name == NULL since
> the equivalence check will never be true if it is.

Given that name == NULL is a static condition it seems like these
should be two different calls, E.g. audit_dentry and audit_path.




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