Re: [RFC][PATCHSET] sanitized pathwalk machinery (v3)

[Linus Torvalds]

On Sun, Mar 1, 2020 at 3:51 PM Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>         Extended since the last repost.  The branch is in #work.dotdot;
> #work.do_last is its beginning (about 2/3 of the total), slightly
> reworked since the last time.

I'm traveling, so only a quick read-through.

One request: can you add the total diffstat to the cover letter (along
with what you used as a base)? I did apply it to a branch just to look
at it more closely, so I can see the final diffstat that way:

 Documentation/filesystems/path-lookup.rst |    7 +-
 fs/autofs/dev-ioctl.c                     |    6 +-
 fs/internal.h                             |    1 -
 fs/namei.c                                | 1333 +++++++++------------
 fs/namespace.c                            |   96 +-
 fs/open.c                                 |    4 +-
 include/linux/namei.h                     |    4 +-
 7 files changed, 642 insertions(+), 809 deletions(-)

but it would have been nice to see in your explanation too.

Anyway, from a quick read-through, I don't see anything that raises my
hackles - you've fixed the goto label naming, and I didn't notice
anything else odd.

Maybe that was because I wasn't careful enough. But the final line
count certainly speaks for the series..

             Linus