Re: [PATCH v2 00/31] vfs: pass S_IFDIR mode to vfs_prepare_mode()

[Christian Brauner]

On Tue, 30 Jun 2026 12:53:29 +0200, Jori Koolstra wrote:
> vfs: pass S_IFDIR mode to vfs_prepare_mode()
> 
> There is a comment in vfs_prepare_mode() that says:
> 
> Note that it's currently valid for @type to be 0 if a directory is
> created. Filesystems raise that flag individually and we need to check
> whether each filesystem can deal with receiving S_IFDIR from the vfs
> before we enforce a non-zero type.
> 
> [...]

People are of course free to annotate their patches with Assisted-by
tags to point out that they are using an LLM. But I'm refusing to do
free in-kernel advertising for specific companies. So I've changed all
tags to read:

Assisted-by: LLM

which is good enough for all purposes. Nobody cares what specific sed or
coccinelle version or whatever else was used.

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Applied to the vfs-7.3.misc branch of the vfs/vfs.git tree.
Patches in the vfs-7.3.misc branch should appear in linux-next soon.

Please report any outstanding bugs that were missed during review in a
new review to the original patch series allowing us to drop it.

It's encouraged to provide Acked-bys and Reviewed-bys even though the
patch has now been applied. If possible patch trailers will be updated.

Note that commit hashes shown below are subject to change due to rebase,
trailer updates or similar. If in doubt, please check the listed branch.

tree:   https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs.git
branch: vfs-7.3.misc

[01/31] vfs: pass S_IFDIR mode to vfs_prepare_mode()
        https://git.kernel.org/vfs/vfs/c/efdfa808046b
[02/31] 9p: drop redundant S_IFDIR from mkdir
        https://git.kernel.org/vfs/vfs/c/cdece9964e85
[03/31] affs: drop redundant S_IFDIR from mkdir
        https://git.kernel.org/vfs/vfs/c/a8b708c9854f
[04/31] afs: drop redundant S_IFDIR from mkdir
        https://git.kernel.org/vfs/vfs/c/f5522bef1e46
[05/31] autofs: drop redundant S_IFDIR from mkdir
        https://git.kernel.org/vfs/vfs/c/31468de07502
[06/31] btrfs: drop redundant S_IFDIR from mkdir
        https://git.kernel.org/vfs/vfs/c/119ace91c0b6
[07/31] ceph: drop redundant S_IFDIR from mkdir
        https://git.kernel.org/vfs/vfs/c/2a3471957fb2
[08/31] ext2: drop redundant S_IFDIR from mkdir
        https://git.kernel.org/vfs/vfs/c/59d70c116933
[09/31] ext4: drop redundant S_IFDIR from mkdir
        https://git.kernel.org/vfs/vfs/c/583b53b0b470
[10/31] f2fs: drop redundant S_IFDIR from mkdir
        https://git.kernel.org/vfs/vfs/c/9822629e4207
[11/31] gfs2: drop redundant S_IFDIR from mkdir
        https://git.kernel.org/vfs/vfs/c/cda6023f474b
[12/31] hfs: drop redundant S_IFDIR from mkdir
        https://git.kernel.org/vfs/vfs/c/c9c0d511a820
[13/31] hfsplus: drop redundant S_IFDIR from mkdir
        https://git.kernel.org/vfs/vfs/c/698ce0b15c50
[14/31] hpfs: drop redundant S_IFDIR from mkdir
        https://git.kernel.org/vfs/vfs/c/e3ec849de731
[15/31] hugetlbfs: drop redundant S_IFDIR from mkdir
        https://git.kernel.org/vfs/vfs/c/d6c1e7d1ddfe
[16/31] jffs2: drop redundant S_IFDIR from mkdir
        https://git.kernel.org/vfs/vfs/c/2b8c9ca36328
[17/31] jfs: drop redundant S_IFDIR from mkdir
        https://git.kernel.org/vfs/vfs/c/f6ad401d7f0c
[18/31] minix: drop redundant S_IFDIR from mkdir
        https://git.kernel.org/vfs/vfs/c/3b4857471b66
[19/31] nilfs2: drop redundant S_IFDIR from mkdir
        https://git.kernel.org/vfs/vfs/c/2183594ad607
[20/31] ntfs3: drop redundant S_IFDIR from mkdir
        https://git.kernel.org/vfs/vfs/c/fc70a07e2702
[21/31] ocfs2: drop redundant S_IFDIR from mkdir
        https://git.kernel.org/vfs/vfs/c/b12ec01ea00f
[22/31] ocfs2: dlmfs: drop redundant S_IFDIR from mkdir
        https://git.kernel.org/vfs/vfs/c/840de92490a2
[23/31] omfs: drop redundant S_IFDIR from mkdir
        https://git.kernel.org/vfs/vfs/c/2f2983204488
[24/31] orangefs: drop redundant S_IFDIR from mkdir
        https://git.kernel.org/vfs/vfs/c/7643456f3468
[25/31] ramfs: drop redundant S_IFDIR from mkdir
        https://git.kernel.org/vfs/vfs/c/86f91a68fb25
[26/31] udf: drop redundant S_IFDIR from mkdir
        https://git.kernel.org/vfs/vfs/c/d36d77de05c1
[27/31] ufs: drop redundant S_IFDIR from mkdir
        https://git.kernel.org/vfs/vfs/c/6449e995b4b2
[28/31] nfs: drop redundant S_IFDIR from mkdir
        https://git.kernel.org/vfs/vfs/c/0266eafe7e34
[29/31] ubifs: drop redundant S_IFDIR from mkdir
        https://git.kernel.org/vfs/vfs/c/9fc38090ccbc
[30/31] xfs: drop redundant S_IFDIR from mkdir
        https://git.kernel.org/vfs/vfs/c/57162848e543
[31/31] ntfs: drop redundant S_IFDIR from mkdir
        https://git.kernel.org/vfs/vfs/c/bec2272283f9