Re: [PATCH 5.10 12/19] vboxsf: Make vboxsf_dir_create() return the handle for the created file

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Fri Aug 13 2021 - 15:32:02 EST


Hi!

> commit ab0c29687bc7a890d1a86ac376b0b0fd78b2d9b6 upstream
>
> Make vboxsf_dir_create() optionally return the vboxsf-handle for
> the created file. This is a preparation patch for adding atomic_open
> support.

Follow up commits using this functionality are in 5.13 but not in
5.10, so I believe we don't need this in 5.10, either?

(Plus someone familiar with the code should check if we need "vboxsf:
Honor excl flag to the dir-inode create op" in 5.10; it may have same
problem).

Best regards,
Pavel

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