Re: [PATCH v6 08/12] vfs: change ->create/->mkdir operations unavailable errno

Christian Brauner <[email protected]>
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.linux-fsdevel,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel
Message-ID <20260918-kargheit-reibung-meinung-b0030a0b063e@brauner> 
On Sun, Sep 13, 2026 at 08:50:12PM +0200, Jori Koolstra wrote:
> Currently filesystems return -EACCES for missing ->create and -EPERM for
> missing ->mkdir in vfs_create/vfs_mkdir. Instead of duplicating these
> dubious and inconsistent error codes to lookup_open(), change all to
> -EOPNOTSUPP.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jori Koolstra <[email protected]>
> ---

I suspect that still has regression potential but we can try.
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