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Wed, 25 Feb 2026 20:04:16 -0800 (PST) From: Ethan Tidmore To: linkinjeon@kernel.org, hyc.lee@gmail.com Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ethan Tidmore Subject: [PATCH 2/2] ntfs: Remove impossible condition Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2026 22:03:55 -0600 Message-ID: <20260226040355.1974628-3-ethantidmore06@gmail.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.53.0 In-Reply-To: <20260226040355.1974628-1-ethantidmore06@gmail.com> References: <20260226040355.1974628-1-ethantidmore06@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" The variable name_len is checked to see if it's larger than the macro NTFS_MAX_NAME_LEN however this condition is impossible because name_len is of type u8 and NTFS_MAX_NAME_LEN is hardcoded to be 255. Detected by Smatch: fs/ntfs/namei.c:1175 __ntfs_link() warn: impossible condition '(name_len > 255) =3D> (0-255 > 255)' Signed-off-by: Ethan Tidmore Reviewed-by: Hyunchul Lee --- fs/ntfs/namei.c | 5 +---- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/ntfs/namei.c b/fs/ntfs/namei.c index cecfaabfbfe7..2952b377dda2 100644 --- a/fs/ntfs/namei.c +++ b/fs/ntfs/namei.c @@ -1172,10 +1172,7 @@ static int __ntfs_link(struct ntfs_inode *ni, struct= ntfs_inode *dir_ni, =20 /* Create FILE_NAME attribute. */ fn_len =3D sizeof(struct file_name_attr) + name_len * sizeof(__le16); - if (name_len > NTFS_MAX_NAME_LEN) { - err =3D -EIO; - goto err_out; - } + fn =3D kzalloc(fn_len, GFP_NOFS); if (!fn) { err =3D -ENOMEM; --=20 2.53.0