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

[Hans de Goede]

Hi,

On 8/17/21 5:52 PM, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 15, 2021 at 2:57 PM Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 8/13/21 9:31 PM, Pavel Machek wrote:
>>> 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).
>>
>> Actually those follow up commits fix an actual bug, so I was expecting
>> the person who did the backport to also submit the rest of the set.
> 
> I only track Greg's failed messages when I find time for stable and
> this one was one of those. So, no idea who has originally requested
> this and why were the other two not requested.

I understand, thank you for backporting the 2 failing commits.

Regards,

Hans