Re: [PATCH 0/5] Minor cleanup preparation for some dir-locking API changes

On Wed, 11 Jun 2025, Christian Brauner wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 09, 2025 at 09:09:32AM +1000, NeilBrown wrote:
> > The following 5 patches provide further cleanup that serves as
> > preparation for some dir-locking API changes that I want to make.  The
> > most interesting is the last which makes another change to vfs_mkdir().
> > As well as returning the dentry or consuming it on failure (a recent
> > change) it now also unlocks on failure.  This will be needed when we
> > transition to locking just the dentry, not the whole directory.
> 
> All of the patches except the vfs_mkdir() one that Al is looking at
> make sense as independent cleanups imho. So I'd take them unless I hear
> screams.
> 

Thanks.  I'm glad you didn't include the vfs_mkdir() change as I found a
problem in the overlayfs code.  I'm make sure I really understand that
code before trying that one again.

Meanwhile I noticed I have a couple of other mostly-independent
cleanups.  I'll send those.

NeilBrown