From: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com>

1. we already expect the refcount is 1.
2. path creation predicts name == iname

I verified this straightens out the asm, no functional changes.

Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251029134952.658450-1-mjguzik@gmail.com
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
---
 fs/namei.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index 37b13339f046..8530d75fb270 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -285,7 +285,7 @@ void putname(struct filename *name)
 		return;
 
 	refcnt = atomic_read(&name->refcnt);
-	if (refcnt != 1) {
+	if (unlikely(refcnt != 1)) {
 		if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!refcnt))
 			return;
 
-- 
2.47.3