Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] vfs: avoid duplicating creds in faccessat if possible

From: Christian Brauner
Date: Fri Mar 03 2023 - 09:49:21 EST


On Thu, Mar 02, 2023 at 09:51:48AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 2, 2023 at 12:30 AM Christian Brauner <brauner@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Fwiw, as long as you, Al, and others are fine with it and I'm aware of
> > it I'm happy to pick up more stuff like this. I've done it before and
> > have worked in this area so I'm happy to help with some of the load.
>
> Yeah, that would work. We've actually had discussions of vfs
> maintenance in general.

As I've said to Al in the other thread I'm happy to help more.

>
> In this case it really wasn't an issue, with this being just two
> fairly straightforward patches for code that I was familiar with.

Yup, I understand.