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

From: Christian Brauner

Date: Fri Sep 18 2026 - 04:08:29 EST


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 <jkoolstra@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---

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