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vfs: clean up argument list for vfs_create()
authorJeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Tue, 11 Nov 2025 14:12:50 +0000 (09:12 -0500)
committerChristian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Wed, 12 Nov 2025 08:38:36 +0000 (09:38 +0100)
commit85bbffcad7307e2ca6136be657cc21b0e1c42241
treed1ac64d2179f773bc2e1644cdc53d584ac2c6b94
parent134796f43a5e6542546841ebecc7465e6f6a96d2
vfs: clean up argument list for vfs_create()

As Neil points out:

"I would be in favour of dropping the "dir" arg because it is always
d_inode(dentry->d_parent) which is stable."

...and...

"Also *every* caller of vfs_create() passes ".excl = true".  So maybe we
don't need that arg at all."

Drop both arguments from vfs_create() and fix up the callers.

Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: NeilBrown <neil@brown.name>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251111-dir-deleg-ro-v6-9-52f3feebb2f2@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
fs/ecryptfs/inode.c
fs/namei.c
fs/nfsd/nfs3proc.c
fs/nfsd/vfs.c
fs/open.c
fs/overlayfs/overlayfs.h
fs/smb/server/vfs.c
include/linux/fs.h