[PATCH 0/2] VFS: minor improvements to a couple of interfaces

From: NeilBrown
Date: Thu Feb 06 2025 - 22:41:19 EST


Hi,
I found these opportunities for simplification as part of my work to
enhance filesystem directory operations to not require an exclusive
lock on the directory.
There are quite a collection of users of these interfaces incluing NFS,
smb/server, bcachefs, devtmpfs, and audit. Hence the long Cc line.

NeilBrown

[PATCH 1/2] VFS: change kern_path_locked() and user_path_locked_at()
[PATCH 2/2] VFS: add common error checks to lookup_one_qstr_excl()