fs: write a better comment in step_into() concerning .mnt assignment

Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260328175841.3390950-1-mjguzik@gmail.com
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>

diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index 5fe6cac48df86b6c4a2d295798b66dc4a3b71655..d77f14f8d67c95683091a6682712938ac2ebe0ab 100644 (file)
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -2141,7 +2141,7 @@ static __always_inline const char *step_into(struct nameidata *nd, int flags,
                if (unlikely(!inode))
                        return ERR_PTR(-ENOENT);
                nd->path.dentry = dentry;
-               /* nd->path.mnt is retained on purpose */
+               /* nd->path.mnt remains unchanged as no mount point was crossed */
                nd->inode = inode;
                nd->seq = nd->next_seq;
                return NULL;