This paragraph was relevant for an earlier version of the code which
passed the qstr as a struct instead of a point. The version that landed
passed the pointer in all cases so this para is now pointless.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neil@brown.name>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250608230952.20539-3-neil@brown.name
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
take a qstr instead of separate name and length. QSTR() can be used
when strlen() is needed for the length.
-For try_lookup_noperm() a reference to the qstr is passed in case the
-hash might subsequently be needed.
-
These function no longer do any permission checking - they previously
checked that the caller has 'X' permission on the parent. They must
ONLY be used internally by a filesystem on itself when it knows that