summaryrefslogtreecommitdiffstats
path: root/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_symlink_remote.c
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_symlink_remote.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_symlink_remote.c14
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_symlink_remote.c b/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_symlink_remote.c
index 95374ab2dee7..77d80106f989 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_symlink_remote.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_symlink_remote.c
@@ -199,7 +199,10 @@ xfs_symlink_local_to_remote(
ifp->if_bytes - 1);
}
-/* Verify the consistency of an inline symlink. */
+/*
+ * Verify the in-memory consistency of an inline symlink data fork. This
+ * does not do on-disk format checks.
+ */
xfs_failaddr_t
xfs_symlink_shortform_verify(
struct xfs_inode *ip)
@@ -215,9 +218,12 @@ xfs_symlink_shortform_verify(
size = ifp->if_bytes;
endp = sfp + size;
- /* Zero length symlinks can exist while we're deleting a remote one. */
- if (size == 0)
- return NULL;
+ /*
+ * Zero length symlinks should never occur in memory as they are
+ * never alllowed to exist on disk.
+ */
+ if (!size)
+ return __this_address;
/* No negative sizes or overly long symlink targets. */
if (size < 0 || size > XFS_SYMLINK_MAXLEN)