From: Christian Brauner Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2025 08:26:01 +0000 (+0100) Subject: Merge patch series "VFS: change kern_path_locked() and user_path_locked_at() to never... X-Git-Tag: v6.15-rc1~247^2~3 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=3789a0ab96af02c5604d1c29d89a43cb986b1222;p=thirdparty%2Flinux.git Merge patch series "VFS: change kern_path_locked() and user_path_locked_at() to never return negative dentry" NeilBrown says: I found these opportunities for simplification as part of my work to enhance filesystem directory operations to not require an exclusive lock on the directory. There are quite a collection of users of these interfaces incluing NFS, smb/server, bcachefs, devtmpfs, and audit. Hence the long Cc line. * patches from https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250217003020.3170652-2-neilb@suse.de: VFS: add common error checks to lookup_one_qstr_excl() VFS: change kern_path_locked() and user_path_locked_at() to never return negative dentry Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250217003020.3170652-2-neilb@suse.de Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner --- 3789a0ab96af02c5604d1c29d89a43cb986b1222