Re: [RFC PATCH 0/8] experimental struct filename followups

On Thu, Jan 08, 2026 at 07:41:53AM +0000, Al Viro wrote:
> This series switches the filename-consuming primitives to variants
> that leave dropping the reference(s) to caller.  These days it's
> fairly painless, and results look simpler wrt lifetime rules:
> 	* with 3 exceptions, all instances have constructors and destructors
> happen in the same scope (via CLASS(filename...), at that)
> 	* CLASS(filename_consume) has no users left, could be dropped.
> 	* exceptions are:
> 		* audit dropping the references it stashed in audit_names
> 		* fsconfig(2) creating and dropping references in two subcommands
> 		* fs_lookup_param() playing silly buggers.
> 	  That's it.
> If we go that way, this will certainly get reordered back into the main series
> and have several commits in there ripped apart and folded into these ones.
> E.g. no sense to convert do_renameat2() et.al. to filename_consume, only to
> have that followed by the first 6 commits here, etc.
> 
> For now I've put those into #experimental.filename, on top of #work.filename.
> Comments would be very welcome...

Yeah, that looks nice. I like this a lot more than having calleee
consume it.
Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner <[email protected]>