From e2a9a3d74a7633598357419257edf77c1fab3e4c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: NeilBrown Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2025 09:09:34 +1000 Subject: [PATCH] VFS: Minor fixes for porting.rst 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 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250608230952.20539-3-neil@brown.name Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner --- Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst | 3 --- 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst index 3616d7161dabd..e8c9f21582d11 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst @@ -1224,9 +1224,6 @@ lookup_noperm_unlocked(), lookup_noperm_positive_unlocked(). They now 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 -- 2.47.2